Gender and politics
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New publication: Gender, Political Knowledge and Descriptive Representation
The paper ‘Gender, Political Knowledge and Descriptive Representation’, co-authored by Ruth Dassonneville and Ian McAllister is now forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science. The full article is available (online first) here. A short blogpost summarizing the main results can be found here. Read more
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Gender, political knowledge and descriptive representation
Abstract Successive studies have found a persistent gender gap in political knowledge. Despite much international research, this gap has remained largely impervious to explanation. A promising line of recent enquiry has been the low levels of women’s elected representation in many democracies. We test the hypothesis that higher levels of women’s elected representation will increase […] Read more