Do women need women representatives?

Campbell, Rosie and Childs, Sarah and Lovenduski, Joni (2010) Do women need women representatives? British Journal of Political Science 40 (1), pp. 1-24. ISSN 0007-1234.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007123409990408

Abstract

This article analyses the relationship between the representatives and the represented by comparing elite and mass attitudes to gender equality and women’s representation in Britain. In so doing, the authors take up arguments in the recent theoretical literature on representation that question the value of empirical research of Pitkin’s distinction between substantive and descriptive representation. They argue that if men and women have different attitudes at the mass level, which are reproduced amongst political elites, then the numerical under-representation of women may have negative implications for women’s substantive representation. The analysis is conducted on the British Election Study (BES) and the British Representation Study (BRS) series.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy > Politics
Research Centres and Institutes:	Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR), British Politics and Public Life, Centre for
Depositing User:	Administrator
Date Deposited:	13 Jan 2011 15:45
Last Modified:	05 Mar 2018 09:40
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2157

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