By Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer
The variety of ladies elected to Latin American legislatures has grown considerably during the last thirty years. This elevate within the variety of ladies elected to nationwide workplace is due, largely, to gender-friendly electoral principles similar to gender quotas and proportional electoral structures, and it has, in flip, fostered constituent aid for consultant democracy. nonetheless, this e-book argues that girls are gaining political voice and bringing women's concerns to nation agendas, yet they don't seem to be gaining political strength. ladies are marginalized through the male majority in workplace and relegated to the least robust committees and management posts, hindering growth towards actual political equality.In Political strength and Women's illustration in Latin the USA, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer examines the factors and results of women's illustration in Latin the USA. She does so by means of asking a sequence of politically suitable and theoretically hard questions, together with why the numbers of girls in workplace have elevated in a few international locations yet range throughout others; what the presence of ladies in place of work ability for how representatives legislate; and what outcomes the election of girls bears for consultant democracy extra commonly. Schwindt-Bayer articulates a accomplished thought of women's illustration that analyzes and connects tendencies when it comes to 4 elements of political illustration: formal, descriptive, substantial and symbolic. She then assessments this concept empirically utilizing mixture info from all eighteen Latin American democracies and unique fieldwork in Argentina, Colombia and Costa Rica. eventually, this ebook communicates the advanced and infrequently incomplete nature of women's political illustration in Latin the USA.
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One of the difficulties with these two theories is that they offer very different explanations for one phenomenon—gender differences in legislative behavior. In this book, I suggest that one way to distinguish between them is by comparing representatives’ political preferences to their behavior. In order for difference theory to be supported, gender differences in behavior should reflect gender differences in representatives’ political preferences. Women’s distinct gender roles should drive them to both think and act differently than men.
The relatively recent emergence of representative democracy in the region and the attention that women’s movements in those transitions to democracy have drawn is part of the reason for this. Yet, it is a region in which we need a better understanding of the causes and consequences of women’s growing presence in office. In this chapter, I articulated a theory of women’s representation and developed a series of hypotheses that help to answer these questions. The remainder of the book examines this theory in Latin America.
In legislatures with quotas, women may have a particularly difficult time translating their preferences into behavior. Although the theoretical reasons for quotas to have a negative effect on women’s substantive representation are logical, empirical research finds mixed support for this argument. One study that does support this thinking is by Vincent (2004). She claims that party quotas in South Africa have solidified that “women gain power only through access to men” and have led to women avoiding women’s issues in their political behavior, citing changes from the prequota period to the postquota period.