This article integrates the comparative literature on gender quotas with the existing body of
research on women's substantive representation. Quota laws, which bring greater numbers …

Since elite women mobilised around suffrage rights in the nineteenth century, gaining
access to decision-making power has been a central objective of women's movements in …

The number of women elected to Latin American legislatures has grown significantly over
the past thirty years. This increase in the number of women elected to national office is due …

This article examines the effect of gender on legislators' attitudes and bill initiation behavior
in three Latin American countries—Argentina, Colombia, and Costa Rica. I argue that sex …

Gender differences regarding the perception of and behaviour toward environmental
problems are well documented: across countries, women express higher concern about the …

This article explores how new groups can be marginalized after they gain representation in
the legislature. We use data from six Latin American legislatures to examine the effect of …

In this volume, experts on Latin American public opinion and political behavior employ
region-wide public opinion studies, elite surveys, experiments, and advanced statistical …

Does it matter that working‐class citizens are numerically underrepresented in political
offices throughout the world? For decades, the conventional wisdom in comparative politics …

One potential consequence of increasing women's numeric representation is that women
elected officials will behave differently than their men counterparts and improve women's …

This report documents findings from the National Community Attitudes towards Violence
against Women Survey (NCAS) and considers them in the context of other related research …