Understanding Exclusion and Resistance to Representation

Abstract

This panel combines new theoretical approaches to the study of women’s exclusion from representative politics with case studies from Serbia, Peru, India, the Nordic Countries and the Pacific. Papers consider the ways in which electoral rules, political party selection practices, and norms of equality and representation together shape women’s share of elected office. Papers ask, how does dominance in leadership and decision-making form part of the definition of political activity, and how does this framing further entrench patriarchal power systems? How do women navigate patriarchal political landscapes and entrenched social norms in the pursuit of executive office? In what ways to bureaucrats contribute to gendered barriers experienced by women as elected representatives? How to women’s parliamentary networks contest these dynamics and how are their activities conditioned by gendered parliamentary institutions?

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Bureaucratic Resistance Against Female Politicians: Evidence from Telangana, India	View Paper Details
Identity, inclusion and representation in Pacific politics: (re)defining the ‘political’	View Paper Details
Contested Inclusion: Theorizing Women’s Entry into Electoral Politics	View Paper Details
The Role of Women’s Parliamentary Network in Serbian Politics	View Paper Details