Gender Norms and Women's Political Representation: A Global Analysis of Cabinets, 1979-2009

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jacob, Suraj; Scherpereel, John A.; Adams, Melinda
• 署名单位: James Madison University
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/gove.12044
• 发表日期: 2014
• 关键词: national legislatures; electoral systems; policy diffusion; DEMOCRACY; WORLD; ORGANIZATIONS; ministers; socialization; GLOBALIZATION; networks

摘要

What role does the international diffusion of gender norms play in determining recent increases in women's political representation? We argue that norm diffusion has larger positive effects on women's cabinet representation than on women's legislative representation. We also show that within cabinets, norm diffusion affects low-prestige appointments more than high-prestige appointments. We test these arguments using an original database of ministers from 1979 to 2009 and find that the association of women's representation with three separate indicators of international diffusion-levels of women's representation among neighboring states, levels of women's representation among intergovernmental organization partners, and time since ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women-is consistent with our arguments.