POLS 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gender Role, Tower Block, Critical Mass
8 Oct 2016
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Nearly universal and persistent roughly 10-15% of globally since 1960s. 3. ) human resources argument everyone looses when politics generally fails to draw from the experiences of all eligible peoples. Mirror representation , numerical representation , standing for focus on numbers and presents do legislators share characteristics of the people they want to represent do they share experience like backgrounds. Legislators share characteristics (e. g. , race, gender) or experiences of the people they represent. Focus on # women in legislatures presence, not actions or behaviors. Descriptive rep important because: fairness/justice, symbolic, human resources, etc. And, because it may lead to greater substantive rep. Important because a lot of the arguments hinge on a match between the elector and the elected. We want to be able to see ourselves in the person that we see leading. Women are in the best position to represent themselves and they are more likely to represent themselves fairly and equally to men.
