Who leads and who lags behind? Women MPs in the Spanish regional parliaments

Santana, Andrés; Fernández, Susana Aguilar; Porta, Xavier Coller

doi:10.3989/ris.2016.74.2.033

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“…The positions of power designated by the parliamentary group's leaders tend to follow Putnam's (1976) law of increasing disproportion, whereby the more disadvantaged a social group, the less it is represented at the highest levels of power. This was confirmed, for example, by Santana, Aguilar, and Coller (2016) regarding the presence of women in the hyper elite of regional parliaments in Spain. In the hyper elite, however, a principle of territorial representation no longer acts as a mediator as it did in the provincial constituencies for the entire Congress.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 62%

“…To complete the analysis of the territorial representation in the Congress of Deputies, we also analyzed the "hyper elite" within the lower chamber, that is, the roster of MPs belonging to the Permanent Deputation and the Board of Spokespersons (Santana, Aguilar, and Coller 2016). MPs are selected for hyper-elite posts by the parliamentary group's leadership from among its members without, a priori, taking into account a territorial balance.…”

Section: The Parliamentary Hyper Elitementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the power structures of parliaments, there are privileged positions, occupied by MPs with a relevant position in their parliamentary group. The Permanent Deputation and the Board of Spokespersons usually include the MPs with the most central position in parliamentary life, thus constituting a hyper elite within the elite (Santana, Aguilar, and Coller 2016). The Permanent Deputation ( Diputación Permanente ) is the body that rules the chamber when the Plenary cannot meet or is dissolved between legislatures.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Territorial Dynamics of Spanish Members of Parliament (1977–2020)

Domínguez

Portillo-Pérez

2022

Nationalities Papers

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The Congress of Deputies should supposedly represent the entire Spanish population and the Spanish Constitution provides mechanisms to ensure geographic representation in the lower house. However, the mobility of the members of parliament (MPs) across constituencies can generate territorial representation imbalances. Based on the territorial component of descriptive representation, this article analyses the unequal geographic representation of autonomous communities in the Congress. A descriptive statistical assessment was conducted based on MPs’ autonomous community of birth, the autonomous community for which they have a seat, the role played by political parties, and the way in which territorial representation occurs within the hyper elite. Special attention was paid to the representation of peripheral regions and to the drivers of overrepresentation (and underrepresentation) of some regions in the Congress. It was observed that—with few exceptions—territorial peripheries include more native MPs, export fewer MPs, and are generally underrepresented in the Congress and within the hyper elite. In contrast, the Basque Country (an exception), Madrid, and other central territories are overrepresented in the Congress. Finally, four models of descriptive territorial representation were identified, which correspond to Spain’s different territorial tensions.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Territorial Dynamics of Spanish Members of Parliament (1977–2020)

Domínguez

Portillo-Pérez

2022

Nationalities Papers

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“…En relación con los trabajos sobre los Parlamentos autonómicos en España, existen estudios sobre el diputado autonómico, cómo han sido seleccionados y qué carreras políticas han seguido o qué les motiva a entrar en la política (Coller et al, 2018). Otros analizan su composición en relación con los cambios en los perfiles sociales de los diputados (Serrano y Bermúdez, 2018;Bermúdez y Serrano, 2021) o la evolución en el porcentaje de mujeres parlamentarias (Delgado et al, 1998;Santana-Leitner et al, 2016). Las aportaciones académicas empíricas relacionadas con el análisis de la opinión pública sobre los Parlamentos subestatales incluyen estas instituciones en análisis más amplios sobre la desconfianza en las instituciones democráticas (Torcal, 2014).…”

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Los Parlamentos de las comunidades autónomas y la opinión pública

Kölling,

Tudela,

Godoy

2024

Rev. Estud. Polít.

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En comparación con las Cortes Generales, los Parlamentos autonómicos parecen recibir menos atención en investigaciones académicas empíricas. El objetivo de este texto es analizar la opinión pública sobre los Parlamentos de las comunidades autónomas basada en una encuesta realizada en el 2021 en cuatro comunidades autónomas. En concreto se analizan tres dimensiones de la opinión pública interrelacionadas sobre los Parlamentos autonómicos: el conocimiento, la valoración y las expectativas. A partir de modelos econométricos logit y logit ordenado se analizan estas dimensiones, considerando como variables independientes variables asociadas a aspectos sociodemográficos, la identificación con la comunidad autónoma y preferencias ideológicas. Con ello, el texto pretende contribuir a tres líneas de investigación: por un lado, a los estudios empíricos de la representación política; por otro, a mejorar la comprensión sobre los Parlamentos de las comunidades autónomas y, finalmente, aportar al debate sobre la calidad democrática en España.

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