Childs, Sarah and Dahlerup, D. (2018) Increasing women's descriptive representation in national parliaments: the involvement and impact of gender and politics scholars. European Journal of Politics and Gender 1 (2), pp. 185-204. ISSN 2515-1088.
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Abstract
Since the 1980s, gender and politics scholarship has prospered alongside increases in women’s descriptive representation. If a ‘feminist imperative’ drives us to seek to transform as well as study politics, the potential impact of research and our role as change actors has been little studied. We ask: (1) what effects feminist scholars sought to have; (2) upon whom; (3) when; and (4) through what channels. With two cases – Nordic countries and the UK – we explore the opportunities and dilemmas faced in seeking to enhance descriptive representation and aim to contribute to the development of feminist theories of political change.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | women’s descriptive representation, feminist knowledge, academic influence/impact, political change, critical mass, acts and actors, feminist institutionalism |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Birkbeck Centre for British Political Life |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Childs |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2019 08:38 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:46 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/24977 |
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