Book chapter
How Parties Affect Gender and Representation
How Women Represent Women
Oxford University Press
03/15/2012
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199845347.003.0002
Abstract
This chapter develops the logic behind the two avenues through which parties shape women’s policy efforts. First, women legislators’ party identification structures the alternatives that they support to address women’s policy issues in the legislature. Second, institutional partisanship, or majority party strength and control of the legislative chamber, creates a structure through which partisan women legislators pursue their alternatives to women’s issues policies. This chapter explains how previous research on women in legislatures makes it difficult to assess these party effects. It also demonstrates how the effects of party identity and institutional partisanship interact to shape how women create and pursue women’s issues legislation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How Parties Affect Gender and Representation
- Creators
- Tracy L Osborn
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- How Women Represent Women
- DOI
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199845347.003.0002
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/15/2012
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive); Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983989291302771
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