Popular consensus has long been that if" enough women" are present in political institutions
they will represent" women's interests." Yet many believe that differences among women …

" EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing from the EU-
funded DomEQUAL research project across nine countries in Europe, South America and …

This article argues that many empirical studies in the field of gender and politics reduce
symbolic representation to an effect of descriptive representation, which limits our …

This article investigates how paired electoral quotas re-distribute parliamentary seats
between majority and minority groups. Focusing on gender and youth quotas, we use the …

Internationally, scholars have raised substantial concerns regarding unfavorable news
coverage of female political candidates and representatives. However, prior research has …

This special issue revisits traditional group-based approaches to political representation by
examining how multiple advantages and disadvantages interact and multiply in specific …

This article nuances the argument that ethnic minority women experience cumulative
disadvantage within politics. Drawing on the French case study, I demonstrate a complex …

Despite growing interest from practitioners, politicians and the media, the political
representation of Muslim ethnic minority women in the West has received scant scholarly …

" On the 7th February 2017, Senator Mitch McConnell read the statement below in an
attempt to justify the silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren's earlier speech in the US …

There has been much public debate about abuse aimed at women in public life on social
media. Studies have made use of automated technologies to analyse the nature and extent …