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Gendering Legislative Behavior: Institutional Constraints and Collaboration
Contributor(s): Barnes, Tiffany D. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107143195     ISBN-13: 9781107143197
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Women In Politics
- Political Science | Political Process - General
- Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American
Dewey: 320.082
LCCN: 2015051004
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" L (1.14 lbs) 296 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
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In democracies, power is obtained via competition. Yet, as women gain access to parliaments in record numbers, worldwide collaboration appears to be on the rise. This is puzzling: why, if politicians can secure power through competition, would we observe collaboration in Congress? Using evidence from 200 interviews with politicians from Argentina and a novel dataset from 23 Argentine legislative chambers over an 18-year period, Gendering Legislative Behavior reexamines traditional notions of competitive democracy by evaluating patterns of collaboration among legislators. Although only the majority can secure power via competition, all legislators - particularly those who do not have power - can influence the policy-making process through collaboration. Tiffany D. Barnes argues that as women have limited access to formal and informal political power, they collaborate more than men to influence policy-making. Despite the benefits of collaboration, patterns of collaboration vary among women because different legislative contexts either facilitate or constrain women's collaboration.

Contributor Bio(s): Barnes, Tiffany D.: - Tiffany D. Barnes is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky. With the support of the National Science Foundation and the Ora N. Arnold Fellowship, she conducted extensive fieldwork in Argentina, visiting nineteen of the country's twenty-four provinces, collecting a large dataset of legislative activity, and conducting more than 200 interviews with legislators and elite political observers. In 2013 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Gender, the Election Law Journal, and the Journal of Women, Politics and Policy.
 
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