The Story of the Theory of Critical Mass

Dahlerup, Drude

doi:10.1017/s1743923x0624114x

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“…Previous research concerning gender equality in its work environment has focused primarily on women's numerical representation and on the possibilities female MPs enjoy to influence policy outcomes, while less attention has been directed to the gendered conditions of the parliament's inner workings. We agree with Dahlerup (2006) that the workplace perspective has much to offer if we wish to broaden the research agenda and include informal as well as formal aspects of the work environment in research concerning gender and legislative bodies. Adopting a workplace perspective is necessary not only for gaining an understanding of gendered conditions in politics, but also for seeing more clearly how policy outcomes become gendered.…”

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The legislature as a gendered workplace: Exploring members of parliament’s experiences of working in the Swedish parliament

Erikson

Josefsson

2018

International Political Science Review

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Do men and women legislators have equal opportunities to carry out their parliamentary duties? An important first step to uncover the parliament's inner life is to evaluate MPs' experiences of their work environment. In this article, we explore the Swedish parliament where women have held over 40 percent of the seats for two decades to test the persistence of gendered norms and practices. Using an originally-collected survey dataset of 279 Swedish MPs (82 percent response rate), we find that women MPs experience greater pressure, higher levels of anxiety, and are subject to more negative treatment than men MPs. Yet, while men and women report participating in the debate and influencing their political party's agenda to the same degree, we conclude that the Parliament's working environment remains gendered in that women pay a higher personal cost for their political engagement.

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The legislature as a gendered workplace: Exploring members of parliament’s experiences of working in the Swedish parliament

Erikson

Josefsson

2018

International Political Science Review

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“…To gauge the competence of these candidates, we develop a unique measure which exploits variation in income, conditional on occupation, education, location, and age, and is estimated on administrative microdata for the full Swedish population. 1 Studies of the spread of reforms and their numeric impact on representation are discussed in Dahlerup (2006) and Krook (2009). Case studies of substantive and symbolic representation are included in, e.g., Franceschet et al (2012).…”

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Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Besley

Folke

Persson³

et al. 2017

American Economic Review

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Representative democracies are frequently said to need competent men and women to function effectively. However, this argument hinges on a range of premises, including how parties promote candidates and how voters value them. For example, party leaders may be reluctant to promote talent in their party if this threatens their own position. Such reluctance may create a vicious circle of mediocrity where low-quality leaders select low-quality followers in order to cement their position. Cozy arrangements between mediocre leaders and candidates can be shaken up in a variety of ways. One interesting possibility, that we study in this paper, is the introduction of quotas on the gender composition of candidates.More than 100 countries have introduced some form of gender quota in their electoral systems. The merits of these policies remain hotly debated in the academic

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“…Básicamente, se sostiene que la incorporación de políticas de género, entendidas como la inclusión en la agenda política de medidas especí camente destinadas a la consecución de la igualdad efectiva entre hombres y mujeres, depende, además del activismo de los movimientos de mujeres, fundamentalmente de dos factores: presencia y maquinaria de género. En concreto, el primero se re ere al hecho de que entre las autoridades públicas existan mujeres, pues en la medida en que estas constituyan un grupo lo su cientemente grande, si se quiere, una masa crítica (Dahlerup 1988;2006a;2006b), podrán introducir asuntos de género en la agenda de actuación pública (Philips 1995). Sea por su acción directa al proponer iniciativas, sea porque su presencia crea un "ambiente" favorable a los asuntos de género, el aumento de la presencia de mujeres en las cámaras representativas suele explicar la inclusión de asuntos o políticas de género (Actchinson y Down 2009;Grey 2006;Mateo, 2005;Mazur 2002).…”

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La feminización de la dinámica política municipal. El caso de los municipios españoles

García

Navarro

2011

Rev. int. sociol.

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RESUMENEl análisis de la responsividad de los gobiernos locales a las asociaciones y movimientos sociales ha sido un asunto central en el estudio de la dinámica socio-política local. No obstante, las asociaciones de mujeres vienen siendo un actor olvidado en estos análisis, a pesar de la importancia de su análisis a nivel nacional. En este trabajo se formula una propuesta analítica para dar cuenta de la importancia de la feminización de las estructuras de oportunidades políticas a nivel local. Esta se aplica al caso español mediante el análisis de una encuesta representativa entre municipios. Los resultados muestran la importancia de la feminización de la estructura de oportunidades políticas como la presencia de mujeres entre las élites políticas municipales. PALABRAS CLAVEAsociaciones de mujeres; Estructura de oportunidades políticas; Gobierno local; Responsividad. SUMMARYThe analysis of responsiveness of local governments to associations and social movements has been a central issue in the analysis of local socio-political dynamics. Nevertheless, women's associations are still a forgotten actor in these analyses, despite the importance of this kind of analyses at national level. In this paper a basic analytical proposal is presented to explain the importance of local political opportunities structures feminization. This proposal is applied to the Spanish case using a representative survey among municipalities. The results show the importance of political opportunities structures feminization as women presence among local councilors.

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The Story of the Theory of Critical Mass

Cited by 211 publications

References 5 publications

The legislature as a gendered workplace: Exploring members of parliament’s experiences of working in the Swedish parliament

The legislature as a gendered workplace: Exploring members of parliament’s experiences of working in the Swedish parliament

Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

La feminización de la dinámica política municipal. El caso de los municipios españoles

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