Gendering Legislative Behavior: Institutional Constraints and Collaboration

ISBN-13: 9781107143197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 296 str.

Tiffany D. Barnes

Opis

Using interview evidence and archival data from Argentina, the book examines why and when women collaborate in Congress.

Recenzje

'Tiffany Barnes documents in extraordinary detail what are the incentives of women legislators to cross the party line and collaborate with each other on the drafting and approval of legislation. In doing so, this book provides a blueprint for future research that explains legislative cooperation on gender, ethnicity, race, or religion dimensions, as they interact with partisan incentives in democratic politics. This is the best book on legislative politics and gender that I have read.' Ernesto Calvo, University of Maryland

Spis treści

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.