Domestic violence legislation and the police: The role of socio-economic indicators, political factors and women's political activism on state policy adoption

Murphy, Patricia Linda

doi:10.1080/1554477x.1997.9970811

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“…Similarly, there is a small significant correlation between the reduction of the gender gap in the political sphere with the approval of legislation tending to protect women's and minorities rights. This relationship is similar to that reported in previous studies (Caiazza 2004;Murphy 1997).…”

Section: Gender Equality Index In Mexican States (Geims)supporting

confidence: 91%

Measuring Structural Gender Equality in Mexico: A State Level Analysis

Frías

2007

Soc Indic Res

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Section: Gender Equality Index In Mexican States (Geims)supporting

confidence: 91%

Measuring Structural Gender Equality in Mexico: A State Level Analysis

Frías

2007

Soc Indic Res

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“…Paralleling the gender gap seen in public opinion polls, studies of legislative roll call votes indicate that women legislators are more likely than men to take liberal positions across a number of social issues (Barrett 1995;Carey, Niemi, and Powell 1998;Diamond 1977;Dodson and Carroll 1991). Not surprisingly then, some research shows that a higher proportion of female representation within a legislature increases the amount of legislative attention to female policy priorities ( Berkman and O'Connor 1993;Burrell 1997;Day 1994;Murphy 1997;Thomas 1991), though not necessarily to policy outputs (Crowley 2004;Tolbert and Steuernagel 2001;Weldon 2002;cf. Schwindt-Bayer and Mishler 2005).…”

Section: External Efficacy and Descriptive Representationmentioning

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More is Better: The Influence of Collective Female Descriptive Representation on External Efficacy

Atkeson¹,

Carrillo²

2007

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This study tests the hypothesis that collective descriptive representation has important benefits for strengthening and legitimizing democratic society. Specifically, we test whether increased proportions of collective female descriptive representation in the statehouse and the presence of a female state executive are important to female citizens' attitudes toward government responsiveness, or external efficacy. We hypothesize that an increase in female collective descriptive representation in the legislative and state executive branches of government will increase female citizens' external efficacy but will be unimportant to males. We pooled American National Election Studies (ANES) data from 1988 to 1998 and used ordered probit techniques to test the hypothesis. In addition to our main independent variable of interest, our model includes state political culture, dyadic descriptive representation, dyadic substantive representation, sociodemographics, political participation, strength of partisanship, and electoral dummy variables as controls. Our results confirm that higher levels of collective female descriptive representation promote higher values of external efficacy for female citizens, suggesting that collective female descriptive representation has important benefits to a democratic society. E xternal political efficacy is the individual perception that governmental authorities and institutions are responsive to citizen influence

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“…Thus, shifts in the structure of gender relations create gendered opportunities for the adoption of women's rights legislation (McCammon et al 2001). Indeed, research findings confirm that there is a significant relationship between women's economic and political power and the adoption of women's rights legislation (Berger, Neuman, et al 1991;Caiazza 2002;McCammon et al 2001;McMahon-Howard et al 2010;Murphy 1997;Ramirez & McEnaney 1997). Therefore, I expect a positive relationship between women's economic and political power and the adoption of rape law reforms.…”

Section: Social Climatementioning

confidence: 83%

“…Thus, female legislators are no more likely than male legislators to pass rape law reforms. This finding is not completely surprising, however, given the mixed findings for the effect of the percentage of women in the state legislature on the adoption of women's rights legislation (McMahon-Howard et al 2010;Murphy 1997;Soule & Olzak 2004). It may be that female legislators' ability to pass women-friendly policies depends on the larger political context (Beckwith & Cowell-Meyers 2007).…”

Section: Gender Climatementioning

confidence: 97%

“…When SMOs are strong, states are more likely to pass legislation supporting activists' interests. Because the strength of a SMO devoted to advancing women's rights is positively related to the adoption of women's rights legislation (McCammon et al 2001;Murphy 1997;Soule & Olzak 2004), I expect states with a strong women's rights organization to be more likely to adopt rape law reforms.…”

Section: Theoretical Perspectives and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Does the Controversy Matter? Comparing the Causal Determinants of the Adoption of Controversial and Noncontroversial Rape Law Reforms

McMahon-Howard

2011

Law Soc Rev

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Do the causal determinants of legal change differ for controversial and noncontroversial laws? Using rape law reforms as an example of legal change, I answer this question via a longitudinal examination of the intrastate characteristics and interstate processes that affect the adoption of both controversial and noncontroversial rape law reforms. The results show that the adoption of partial reforms significantly decreases a state's likelihood of passing a stronger version of the reform only for controversial rape law reforms. Other factors, such as women's economic power and the interstate process of diffusion similarly affect both controversial and noncontroversial reforms. Thus, contrary to the idea that the process of diffusion operates differently for controversial reforms, the results indicate that spatial proximity negatively affects the adoption of both controversial and noncontroversial rape law reforms. These findings have important implications for theoretical explanations of legal change, research on rape law reforms, and social movement research and activism.

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Domestic violence legislation and the police: The role of socio-economic indicators, political factors and women's political activism on state policy adoption

Cited by 14 publications

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Measuring Structural Gender Equality in Mexico: A State Level Analysis

Measuring Structural Gender Equality in Mexico: A State Level Analysis

More is Better: The Influence of Collective Female Descriptive Representation on External Efficacy

Does the Controversy Matter? Comparing the Causal Determinants of the Adoption of Controversial and Noncontroversial Rape Law Reforms

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