Tiffany D. Barnes (University of Kentucky)

Gendering Legislative Behavior

Institutional Constraints and Collaboration

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book targets scholars and students in political science, gender and women's studies, and Latin American studies. It examines issues of representation, Congress, comparative political institutions, electoral systems, and gender politics. It is timely and accessible, and combines archival data with evidence from interviews.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 228mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781316507650
• ISBN-10: 1316507653
• Artikelnr.: 44547009

Autorenporträt

Tiffany D. Barnes is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky. With the support of the National Science Foundation and the Ora N. Arnold Fellowship, she conducted extensive fieldwork in Argentina, visiting nineteen of the country's twenty-four provinces, collecting a large dataset of legislative activity, and conducting more than 200 interviews with legislators and elite political observers. In 2013 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Gender, the Election Law Journal, and the Journal of Women, Politics and Policy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. A theory of legislative collaboration
3. Can democracy be collaborative? Examining patterns of collaboration
4. Why do women collaborate? Evidence of women's marginalization
5. When do women collaborate? Explaining between chamber variation
6. When do women collaborate? Explaining within chamber variation
7. Collaboration in a cross-national context
8. Conclusion.