Joni Lovenduski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1160117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joni Lovenduski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joni |
| FAMILY NAME | Lovenduski |
| SIGNATURE | LOVENDUSKI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 981 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
What Will it Take for a Woman to Become President of the United States
In this article we consider what it will take for a woman to be elected President of the United States. We examine the available data from the 2024 election, in comparison to previous elections; we inspect the main findings from the feminist political science of political parties, candidate selection and gendered barriers to elected leadership; and we consider the lessons from routes to high office in comparable countries, especially the UK. We c…
Reclaiming party politics research: Response to Anika Gauja and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen. 2021. Decline, adaptation and relevance: political parties and their researchers in the twentieth century. Euro…
In a 2021 Special Issue in European Political Science, Anika Gauja and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen review the sub-field of party politics research. In doing so, they argue party politics scholarship reflects the broader development of the political science discipline, illustrating the evolving relationship between politics researchers and the organisations they study. In this reply, we argue that the party politics sub-field reflects the wider discip…
Funding Anti‐Gender Politics in Europe
Neil Datta's report, Tip of the Iceberg: Religious Extremist Funders against Human Rights for Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Europe 2009–2018 , examines the funding, activities and interconnections of anti‐gender politics in Europe between 2009 and 2018. It identifies and traces funding, donors, beneficiaries, outputs and outcomes of a rising number of activities aimed at overturning the achievements of sex and gender equality movements of …
Aren’t women human too
The Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation: Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, France, Spain, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Eastern Europe, USSR, Japan
Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation
Politics of the Second Electorate
Power struggles: Gender equality in political representation
Gender inequality in political representation remains despite widespread and long-standing feminist campaigns for representative equality. This article suggests that in order to increase our understanding of why men’s over-representation in politics persists, gender equality in descriptive and substantive representation should be analysed as power struggles. Power is operationalised as positional power and active power, and struggle as the intera…
Feminist Reflections on Representative Democracy
Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation
The Good Parliament and Other Reports
How to be a feminist MP
The Supply and Demand Model of Candidate Selection: Some Reflections
This contribution takes a look back at the supply and demand model of selection and recruitment, developed by Joni Lovenduski and Pippa Norris in Political Recruitment: Gender, Race and Class in the British Parliament (1995). The core understanding of this model was that candidate selection was an interactive process in which both selectors and aspirants affected outcomes that were organized in several sets of institutions. The model illuminates …
Feminist Political Theory and Political Science
What Should MPs Do? Public and Parliamentarians' Views Compared
The notion that voters are demanding ever more constituency activity from their MPs is now a widely-accepted tenet of British politics. There is a great deal of survey work demonstrating that voters place a high priority on constituency connections of all kinds, but we know less about how voters' priorities compare with MPs' ranking of constituency work against competing aspects of their role. In this article we compare matched surveys of voters …
Political Representation
This article considers the centrality of political representation to feminist politics. It discusses the traditional theories of representation and then explains how scholars of gender and politics have used the term. The next section outlines the state of scholarship on the political representation and substantive representation of women. The last part of the article discusses eight questions that are deemed central to the modern research agenda…
Parliamentary Socialisation: Learning the Ropes or Determining Behaviour
Prime Minister's questions as political ritual
Feminising British Politics
A Long Way to Go: The Final Report of the Speaker's Conference on Parliamentary Representation
The Speaker's Conference on Parliamentary Representation reported in January 2010. The report calls for a host of measures to improve the representativeness of the House of Commons and to revitalise political parties, as well as to enhance citizenship education, develop youth and community citizenship engagement programmes, and more generally to revitalise British democracy. Early responses indicate that the government and political parties will …
Do Women Need Women Representatives
This article analyses the relationship between the representatives and the represented by comparing elite and mass attitudes to gender equality and women’s representation in Britain. In so doing, the authors take up arguments in the recent theoretical literature on representation that question the value of empirical research of Pitkin’s distinction between substantive and descriptive representation. They argue that if men and women have different…
State Feminism and Political Representation
Gender Quotas and Models of Political Citizenship
Gender quotas have spread rapidly around the world in recent years. However, few studies have yet theorized, systematically or comparatively, variations in their features, adoption and implementation. This article surveys quota campaigns in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. It proposes that one or more sets of controversies influence the course and outcomes of quota reforms. These revolve around (1) competing principles of…
A Standing Commission on Social Justice
State Feminism and Women's Movements
This article offers a brief reflection on the emergence of the study of gender and politics over the past 30 years and its influence on European political science. It goes on to discuss the early results of a recently completed comparative project, the RNGS project (Research Network on Gender and the State) on the influence of women's movements on public policy decisions. The RNGS project reflects both developments in the sub-field of gender and …
Westminster Women: The Politics of Presence
The entry of the 1997 cohort of Labour women into public life offers a test case of whether, and under what conditions, women politicians have the capacity to ‘make a substantive difference’. We outlines the theory of the politics of presence and discuss how to operationalise this in a testable model. We, use the British Representation Study survey of 1,000 national politicians (including parliamentary candidates and elected Members of Parliament…
Gendering Research in Political Science
The examination of feminist research on political representation, public policy, and political institutions indicates that a shift in emphasis from the dichotomous variable of sex to the concept of gender is taking place. The shift is incomplete partly because many feminists believe both concepts are necessary to good research design. While mainstream political scientists have become more willing to use sex as a background variable in their resea…
If Only More Candidates Came Forward: Supply-Side Explanations of Candidate Selection in Britain
In a familiar observation, members of the British House of Commons are demographically unrepresentative of the British population in terms of gender, race, education and class. This article takes a fresh look at the reasons why this is the case, based on data from the British Candidate Study, 1992. This study analyses the background, experience and attitudes of MPs, candidates, applicants, party members and voters. By comparing strata we can see …
Do Women Need Women Representatives
This article analyses the relationship between the representatives and the represented by comparing elite and mass attitudes to gender equality and women’s representation in Britain. In so doing, the authors take up arguments in the recent theoretical literature on representation that question the value of empirical research of Pitkin’s distinction between substantive and descriptive representation. They argue that if men and women have different…
Gender Quotas and Models of Political Citizenship
Gender quotas have spread rapidly around the world in recent years. However, few studies have yet theorized, systematically or comparatively, variations in their features, adoption and implementation. This article surveys quota campaigns in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. It proposes that one or more sets of controversies influence the course and outcomes of quota reforms. These revolve around (1) competing principles of…
Do Candidates Make a Difference? Gender, Race, Ideology and Incumbency
Journal Article Do Candidates Make a Difference? Gender, Race, Ideology and Incumbency Get access PIPPA NORRIS, PIPPA NORRIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ELIZABETH VALLANCE, ELIZABETH VALLANCE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JONI LOVENDUSKI JONI LOVENDUSKI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 45, I…
What Should MPs Do? Public and Parliamentarians' Views Compared
The notion that voters are demanding ever more constituency activity from their MPs is now a widely-accepted tenet of British politics. There is a great deal of survey work demonstrating that voters place a high priority on constituency connections of all kinds, but we know less about how voters' priorities compare with MPs' ranking of constituency work against competing aspects of their role. In this article we compare matched surveys of voters …
Why Parties Fail to Learn: Electoral Defeat, Selective Perception and British Party Politics
Multiple factors can be offered to explain the Labour victory, and Conservative defeat, in the 2001 British general election. Here we pursue an explanation based on the idea that rational vote-seeking politicians may fail to learn from electoral defeat due to selective perception. In Part I we outline the theoretical premises and in Part II consider how this framework can be applied to the context of British elections. Evidence is drawn from the …
Women and Politics: Minority Representation or Critical Mass
Journal Article Women and Politics: Minority Representation or Critical Mass? Get access Joni Lovenduski Joni Lovenduski Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 October 2001, Pages 743–758, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.4.743 Published: 01 October 2001
The Supply and Demand Model of Candidate Selection: Some Reflections
This contribution takes a look back at the supply and demand model of selection and recruitment, developed by Joni Lovenduski and Pippa Norris in Political Recruitment: Gender, Race and Class in the British Parliament (1995). The core understanding of this model was that candidate selection was an interactive process in which both selectors and aspirants affected outcomes that were organized in several sets of institutions. The model illuminates …
Women Candidates for Parliament: Transforming the Agenda
Why should more women be elected to positions of power in Britain? What difference would it make? This Note aims to examine these questions using data from a survey of almost six hundred men and women candidates to the British Parliament in the 1987 general election. There are two major arguments for increasing women's representation
Prime Minister's questions as political ritual
Women's Equality Guarantees and the Conservative Party
The history of government from the earliest times
State Feminism and Women's Movements
This article offers a brief reflection on the emergence of the study of gender and politics over the past 30 years and its influence on European political science. It goes on to discuss the early results of a recently completed comparative project, the RNGS project (Research Network on Gender and the State) on the influence of women's movements on public policy decisions. The RNGS project reflects both developments in the sub-field of gender and …
Selecting women candidates: Obstacles to the feminisation of the House of Commons
Despite concern by the major British political parties to increase the number of women at Westminster, progress has been slow, yielding only just over 5 per cent of women MPs. This article presents the results of an investigation of party selection procedures designed to determine whether selection practices were themselves the explanation for the poor showing of women. The study consisted of interviews with party officials and a survey of the ca…
Feminist Ideas and Domestic Violence Policy Change
State Feminism and Political Representation
Party Selectorates in Australia, Britain and Canada: Prolegomena for Research in the 1990s
(1990). Party Selectorates in Australia, Britain and Canada: Prolegomena for Research in the 1990s. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 219-245
Feminising British Politics
Power struggles: Gender equality in political representation
Gender inequality in political representation remains despite widespread and long-standing feminist campaigns for representative equality. This article suggests that in order to increase our understanding of why men’s over-representation in politics persists, gender equality in descriptive and substantive representation should be analysed as power struggles. Power is operationalised as positional power and active power, and struggle as the intera…
Sexing London: The Gender Mix of Urban Policy Actors
This article proposes an analysis of London's gender system. First, it explores the relationship between gender and the local economy and culture. Second, it examines decision-making structures in the local state and how they are gendered. Third, the article investigates London's autonomous women's movement and the extent to which its constituent groups possess the resources necessary to influence policy. Fourth, it looks at two issue areas, home…
Gender and international relations
Journal Article Gender and international relations Get access Gender and international relations. Edited by Rebecca Grantand Kathleen Newland. Milton Keynes: The Open University. 1991. 176pp. Index. £30.00; ISBN 0 335 09741 3. Pb.: £11.99; ISBN 0 335 09740 5. Joni Lovenduski Joni Lovenduski 1University of Loughborough Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 3, July 1992, Pag…
The women's movements of the United States and Western Europe: Consciousness, political opportunity, and public policy
Journal Article The women's movements of the United States and Western Europe: consciousness, political opportunity, and public policy Get access The women's movements of the United States and Western Europe: consciousness, political opportunity, and public policy. Edited By Mary Fainsod Katzensteinand Carol McClurg Mueller. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 1987. 321pp. Index. $34.95. ISBN 0 87722 463 3. Joni Lovenduski Joni Lovenduski …
Feminist Reflections on Representative Democracy
Sex Equality and the Law in Britain
The equal opportunities commission
Careers of professional women
Supermadre: Women in politics in Latin America
The Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation
Women and European politics: Contemporary Feminism and Public Policy
Politics and Society in Eastern Europe
Women and European Politics: Contemporary Feminism and Public Policy
The women's movements of the United States and Western Europe: Consciousness, political opportunity, and public policy
Journal Article The women's movements of the United States and Western Europe: consciousness, political opportunity, and public policy Get access The women's movements of the United States and Western Europe: consciousness, political opportunity, and public policy. Edited By Mary Fainsod Katzensteinand Carol McClurg Mueller. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 1987. 321pp. Index. $34.95. ISBN 0 87722 463 3. Joni Lovenduski Joni Lovenduski …
Feminism in the 1980s
Implementing Equal Opportunities in the 1980s: An Overview
Although it is over ten years since major legislation was enacted, equal opportunities remains a controversial issue in Britain. This has affected its implementation in a variety of ways. The article reviews arguments over the meaning of equal opportunities policy, its meaning in the British case and the way it is affected by the British conception of rights. Consideration is given to the experience of implementation by the relevant administrativ…
Selecting women candidates: Obstacles to the feminisation of the House of Commons
Despite concern by the major British political parties to increase the number of women at Westminster, progress has been slow, yielding only just over 5 per cent of women MPs. This article presents the results of an investigation of party selection procedures designed to determine whether selection practices were themselves the explanation for the poor showing of women. The study consisted of interviews with party officials and a survey of the ca…
Women Candidates for Parliament: Transforming the Agenda
Why should more women be elected to positions of power in Britain? What difference would it make? This Note aims to examine these questions using data from a survey of almost six hundred men and women candidates to the British Parliament in the 1987 general election. There are two major arguments for increasing women's representation
Party Selectorates in Australia, Britain and Canada: Prolegomena for Research in the 1990s
(1990). Party Selectorates in Australia, Britain and Canada: Prolegomena for Research in the 1990s. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 219-245
Gender and international relations
Journal Article Gender and international relations Get access Gender and international relations. Edited by Rebecca Grantand Kathleen Newland. Milton Keynes: The Open University. 1991. 176pp. Index. £30.00; ISBN 0 335 09741 3. Pb.: £11.99; ISBN 0 335 09740 5. Joni Lovenduski Joni Lovenduski 1University of Loughborough Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 3, July 1992, Pag…
Do Candidates Make a Difference? Gender, Race, Ideology and Incumbency
Journal Article Do Candidates Make a Difference? Gender, Race, Ideology and Incumbency Get access PIPPA NORRIS, PIPPA NORRIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ELIZABETH VALLANCE, ELIZABETH VALLANCE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JONI LOVENDUSKI JONI LOVENDUSKI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 45, I…
If Only More Candidates Came Forward: Supply-Side Explanations of Candidate Selection in Britain
In a familiar observation, members of the British House of Commons are demographically unrepresentative of the British population in terms of gender, race, education and class. This article takes a fresh look at the reasons why this is the case, based on data from the British Candidate Study, 1992. This study analyses the background, experience and attitudes of MPs, candidates, applicants, party members and voters. By comparing strata we can see …
Political Recruitment: Gender, Race and Class in the British Parliament
In this compelling book Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski provide the first full account of legislative recruitment in Britain for twenty-five years. Their central concern is how and why some politicians succeed in moving into the highest offices of state, while others fail. The book examines the relative dearth of women, black and working-class Members of Parliament, and whether the evident social bias in the British political élite matters for p…
Labour and the Unions: After the Brighton Conference
A Discussion of Last Autumn's Debate over Candidate selection in the British Labour Party and a consideration of the party's links with the trade unions may seem inappropriately provincial in an international journal of comparative politics. However, when viewed as an example of the continued search for political relevance by socialist parties in opposition, the issues raised by Labour's struggle to modernize take on more general interest. During…
Women and Party Politics in Western Europe
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Sexing London: The Gender Mix of Urban Policy Actors
This article proposes an analysis of London's gender system. First, it explores the relationship between gender and the local economy and culture. Second, it examines decision-making structures in the local state and how they are gendered. Third, the article investigates London's autonomous women's movement and the extent to which its constituent groups possess the resources necessary to influence policy. Fourth, it looks at two issue areas, home…
The history of government from the earliest times
Gendering Research in Political Science
The examination of feminist research on political representation, public policy, and political institutions indicates that a shift in emphasis from the dichotomous variable of sex to the concept of gender is taking place. The shift is incomplete partly because many feminists believe both concepts are necessary to good research design. While mainstream political scientists have become more willing to use sex as a background variable in their resea…
Feminist Ideas and Domestic Violence Policy Change
Women and Politics: Minority Representation or Critical Mass
Journal Article Women and Politics: Minority Representation or Critical Mass? Get access Joni Lovenduski Joni Lovenduski Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, 1 October 2001, Pages 743–758, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.4.743 Published: 01 October 2001
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