POLS 280 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wartime Elections Act, Critical Mass, Intersectionality

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 280
• Professor: Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant

Document Summary

Note: the short answer questions will ask you to identify and discuss the significance of the terms/debates. Make sure you know the significance of all the concepts! Royal commission on the status of women (rcsw) Demand (are there barriers to the selection of interested women as candidates?) Electoral systems: single member plurality and proportional representation (what one has proven to be better for women?) General history: the three waves of feminism, dates (when women got voting rights in. Three waves of feminism: world commission and bna act. Understanding different terms: equality, public vs. private, gender vs. sex, etc. Difference between formal representation, descriptive representation, substantial representation. Gender work and the economy, women"s involvement in wwii, gender inequality. Quotas and how they fit into the different representation systems. Reasons we want women to be politically represented. District magnitude the number of districts is important for political representation. How thresholds in the pr system affect candidates.