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By Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer

The variety of ladies elected to Latin American legislatures has grown considerably over the last thirty years. This elevate within the variety of ladies elected to nationwide workplace is due, largely, to gender-friendly electoral ideas akin to gender quotas and proportional electoral structures, and it has, in flip, fostered constituent help for consultant democracy. nonetheless, this ebook argues that ladies are gaining political voice and bringing women's matters to nation agendas, yet they aren't gaining political energy. girls are marginalized by way of the male majority in workplace and relegated to the least robust committees and management posts, hindering growth towards genuine political equality.

In Political energy and Women's illustration in Latin America, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer examines the motives and outcomes of women's illustration in Latin the United States. She does so via asking a chain of politically correct and theoretically tough questions, together with why the numbers of girls in place of work have elevated in a few international locations yet fluctuate throughout others; what the presence of girls in place of work skill for a way representatives legislate; and what outcomes the election of ladies bears for consultant democracy extra generally.

Schwindt-Bayer articulates a entire idea of women's illustration that analyzes and connects developments in terms of 4 elements of political illustration: formal, descriptive, substantial and symbolic. She then assessments this conception empirically utilizing combination information from all eighteen Latin American democracies and unique fieldwork in Argentina, Colombia and Costa Rica. eventually, this publication communicates the advanced and infrequently incomplete nature of women's political illustration in Latin America.

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