Electing Women to National Legislatures

O’Brien, Diana Z.; Piscopo, Jennifer M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64006-8_7

Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment Across the Globe 2017

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64006-8_7

|View full text |Cite

Electing Women to National Legislatures

Diana Z. O’Brien

Jennifer M. Piscopo

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2018

2023

Publication Types

Select...

Article5

Relationship

Self Cite1

Independent4

Authors

Journals

Cited by 6 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 50 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Women remain under represented in parliaments across the Western world (Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2018). Women’s presence – or lack thereof – in political offices has important implications for policy outcomes (Bratton, 2002; Diaz, 2005; Sawer, 2012; Swers, 2002; Wängnerud, 2000), representation in parliament (O’Brien and Piscopo, 2018) and the policy preferences of parties (Greene and O’Brien, 2016). The extent of women’s descriptive representation in political institutions raises important, but understudied, implications for political decision-making and policy outcomes.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Does What Work in a Ministerial Office: Politically Appointed Staff and the Descriptive Representation of Women in Australian Political Offices, 1979–2010

Taflaga

Kerby

2019

Political Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Women are underrepresented within political institutions, which can (negatively) impact policy outcomes. We examine women’s descriptive representation as politically appointed staff within ministerial offices. Politically appointed staff are now institutionalised into the policy process, so who they are is important. To date, collecting systematic data on political staff has proved impossible. However, for the first time we demonstrate how to build a systematic data set of this previously unobservable population. We use Australian Ministerial Directories (telephone records) from 1979 to 2010 (a method that can notionally be replicated in advanced democratic jurisdictions), to examine political advising careers in a similar manner as elected political elites. We find that work in political offices is divided on gender lines: men undertake more policy work, begin and end their careers in higher status roles and experience greater career progression than women. We find evidence that this negatively impacts women’s representation and their later career paths into parliament.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Does What Work in a Ministerial Office: Politically Appointed Staff and the Descriptive Representation of Women in Australian Political Offices, 1979–2010

Taflaga

Kerby

2019

Political Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Our work draws on, and contributes to, scholarship on women’s descriptive and substantive representation (Aldrich and Lotito 2020; Atchison 2015; Clayton and Zetterberg 2018; O’Brien and Piscopo 2018, 2019; Weeks 2022) and research linking inequalities in representation and economic globalization (Baccini and Weymouth 2021; Rickard 2015). We show that women’s representation leaves an imprint even on issues that are not overtly gendered.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Women Make More Protectionist Trade Policy?

2023

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Women have more protectionist trade preferences than men do. We assess whether this well-documented relationship between gender and protectionism in the mass public carries over into a relationship between women’s political representation and (a) party platforms, and (b) governments’ trade policy choices. Looking across countries and over time, we demonstrate that with an increase in women’s representation, political party trade policy positions become more protectionist. For government trade policy choices, we identify more nuanced results. The protectionist effect of women’s representation is limited to the most visible products: consumption goods. Women’s representation has no effect on intermediate inputs, where firm demands for trade liberalization are more pronounced and policy makers are thus constrained in implementing a protectionist agenda. These findings contribute to scholarship on the descriptive–substantive representation link, add a new dimension to our understanding of trade politics, and demonstrate the importance of applying a gendered lens to international political economy research.

show abstract

The Choice Is Yours: Caucus Typologies and Collaboration in U.S. State Legislatures

Holman

Mahoney

2019

Representation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Info

hi@scite.ai

10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614

Henderson, NV 89052, USA

Blog Terms and Conditions API Terms Privacy Policy Contact Cookie Preferences Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Made with 💙 for researchers

Part of the Research Solutions Family.

Electing Women to National Legislatures

Cited by 6 publications

References 50 publications

Who Does What Work in a Ministerial Office: Politically Appointed Staff and the Descriptive Representation of Women in Australian Political Offices, 1979–2010

Who Does What Work in a Ministerial Office: Politically Appointed Staff and the Descriptive Representation of Women in Australian Political Offices, 1979–2010

Do Women Make More Protectionist Trade Policy?

The Choice Is Yours: Caucus Typologies and Collaboration in U.S. State Legislatures

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About