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The Political Representation of Women & Ethnic Groups in Legislatures around the World Didier Ruedin, University of Neuchtel, Switzerland University of Kentucky , Lexington, 5 th February 2015 Definitions Political Representation
Didier Ruedin, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland University of Kentucky, Lexington, 5th February 2015
– Substantive representation – Descriptive representation
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Citizens Vote Legislature Atuitudes Candidates Electoral System Salience Political Context
– IPU (all 131 free/partly free countries) – Newly collected (2006) – 101 countries (115 countries)
– Country level
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Variable Women Ethnic Groups Electoral System Yes* No Qvotas Yes * (Yes) Political Rights Yes Yes * Old Democracy Yes No Atuitudes Yes ** Yes ** ** consistently; * in some models, not consistently; bivariate only
– Political system – Culture
– Trade-ofg between including women or ethnic
minority groups
– Importance of social cleavage
Heterogeneous Homogeneous Women low high Ethnic Groups high low
Heterogeneous Homogeneous Women 0.30 0.34 Ethnic Groups 0.63 0.28
– Implementation