Erica Rayment
Biographic Data
| ID | 2253480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica Rayment |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica |
| FAMILY NAME | Rayment |
| SIGNATURE | RAYMENT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5729-9715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Opportunities and influence
Recent reforms to the Canadian Senate have reduced partisanship in the upper house, where party discipline was already low and there is no electoral imperative. Without party directives, senators may have more latitude than members of Parliament to represent the interests of marginalized groups, including women’s groups. In this article, we ask: have women’s advocacy groups recognized the Senate as a promising venue for women’s substantive repres…
Parliamentarians’ perspectives on parenthood and politics in Canada’s House of Commons
Canada’s members of parliament (MPs) work long hours, travel frequently, and spend weeks away from home each year. Research on gender and politics finds that parliamentary work is not designed to accommodate those with caring obligations, usually women. In this paper, we leverage a survey of sitting Canadian MPs conducted in 2022 to assess whether women MPs report greater difficulty combining a political career with family life and to identify pa…
Contexts and Constraints
This paper explores the way in which institutional context shapes legislators' ability to represent women's interests. In recent decades, scholars have turned their attention to the process of representation in parliament, and we develop a novel theoretical framework that accounts for patterns of representational behaviour. Through an examination of the different institutional contexts of the two houses of the Canadian parliament, we argue that u…
Do Women Politicians Know More about Women’s Policy Preferences? Evidence from Canada
This study draws together theories of women’s substantive representation and research on politicians’ knowledge of constituent preferences. We ask whether politicians are better at predicting their constituents’ policy preferences when they share the same gender. In doing so, we contribute to knowledge about the mechanisms underlying substantive representation. Using original surveys of 3,750 Canadians and 867 elected politicians, we test whether…
Mississauga
Pandemic Parliaments
Canadian legislatures’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have raised questions about whether and how parliaments should continue to meet during the pandemic (Reid, 2020; Thomas, 2020a). The purpose of this research note is twofold: (1) to document how Canadian legislatures have changed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) to assess the effect of these responses on legislatures’ ability to fulfill their core functions. Through an analysis…
Politicians in the line of fire
A seemingly inescapable feature of the digital age is that people choosing to devote their lives to politics must now be ready to face a barrage of insults and disparaging comments targeted at them through social media. This article represents an effort to document this phenomenon systematically. We implement machine learning models to predict the incivility of about 2.2 m messages addressed to Canadian politicians and US Senators on Twitter. Spe…
Risk perception, regulation, and unlicensed child care
In 2014, the Province of Ontario, Canada undertook a number of legislative changes regarding child care. Part way through the process, a series of tragic focusing events occurred: a number of infants and children died in unlicensed child care over a short period of time. Despite these events, the Province chose to allow a portion of the family child care (FCC) sector to remain unlicensed and essentially unregulated in a sector that is otherwise s…
Women of Power
"Women of Power: half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwideTORILD SKARD." Women's History Review, 25(5), pp. 863–864
Politicians in the line of fire
A seemingly inescapable feature of the digital age is that people choosing to devote their lives to politics must now be ready to face a barrage of insults and disparaging comments targeted at them through social media. This article represents an effort to document this phenomenon systematically. We implement machine learning models to predict the incivility of about 2.2 m messages addressed to Canadian politicians and US Senators on Twitter. Spe…
Pandemic Parliaments
Canadian legislatures’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have raised questions about whether and how parliaments should continue to meet during the pandemic (Reid, 2020; Thomas, 2020a). The purpose of this research note is twofold: (1) to document how Canadian legislatures have changed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) to assess the effect of these responses on legislatures’ ability to fulfill their core functions. Through an analysis…
Contexts and Constraints
This paper explores the way in which institutional context shapes legislators' ability to represent women's interests. In recent decades, scholars have turned their attention to the process of representation in parliament, and we develop a novel theoretical framework that accounts for patterns of representational behaviour. Through an examination of the different institutional contexts of the two houses of the Canadian parliament, we argue that u…
Do Women Politicians Know More about Women’s Policy Preferences? Evidence from Canada
This study draws together theories of women’s substantive representation and research on politicians’ knowledge of constituent preferences. We ask whether politicians are better at predicting their constituents’ policy preferences when they share the same gender. In doing so, we contribute to knowledge about the mechanisms underlying substantive representation. Using original surveys of 3,750 Canadians and 867 elected politicians, we test whether…
Risk perception, regulation, and unlicensed child care
In 2014, the Province of Ontario, Canada undertook a number of legislative changes regarding child care. Part way through the process, a series of tragic focusing events occurred: a number of infants and children died in unlicensed child care over a short period of time. Despite these events, the Province chose to allow a portion of the family child care (FCC) sector to remain unlicensed and essentially unregulated in a sector that is otherwise s…
Women of Power
"Women of Power: half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwideTORILD SKARD." Women's History Review, 25(5), pp. 863–864
Risk perception, regulation, and unlicensed child care
In 2014, the Province of Ontario, Canada undertook a number of legislative changes regarding child care. Part way through the process, a series of tragic focusing events occurred: a number of infants and children died in unlicensed child care over a short period of time. Despite these events, the Province chose to allow a portion of the family child care (FCC) sector to remain unlicensed and essentially unregulated in a sector that is otherwise s…
Politicians in the line of fire
A seemingly inescapable feature of the digital age is that people choosing to devote their lives to politics must now be ready to face a barrage of insults and disparaging comments targeted at them through social media. This article represents an effort to document this phenomenon systematically. We implement machine learning models to predict the incivility of about 2.2 m messages addressed to Canadian politicians and US Senators on Twitter. Spe…
Pandemic Parliaments
Canadian legislatures’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have raised questions about whether and how parliaments should continue to meet during the pandemic (Reid, 2020; Thomas, 2020a). The purpose of this research note is twofold: (1) to document how Canadian legislatures have changed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) to assess the effect of these responses on legislatures’ ability to fulfill their core functions. Through an analysis…
Mississauga
Contexts and Constraints
This paper explores the way in which institutional context shapes legislators' ability to represent women's interests. In recent decades, scholars have turned their attention to the process of representation in parliament, and we develop a novel theoretical framework that accounts for patterns of representational behaviour. Through an examination of the different institutional contexts of the two houses of the Canadian parliament, we argue that u…
Do Women Politicians Know More about Women’s Policy Preferences? Evidence from Canada
This study draws together theories of women’s substantive representation and research on politicians’ knowledge of constituent preferences. We ask whether politicians are better at predicting their constituents’ policy preferences when they share the same gender. In doing so, we contribute to knowledge about the mechanisms underlying substantive representation. Using original surveys of 3,750 Canadians and 867 elected politicians, we test whether…
Opportunities and influence
Recent reforms to the Canadian Senate have reduced partisanship in the upper house, where party discipline was already low and there is no electoral imperative. Without party directives, senators may have more latitude than members of Parliament to represent the interests of marginalized groups, including women’s groups. In this article, we ask: have women’s advocacy groups recognized the Senate as a promising venue for women’s substantive repres…
Parliamentarians’ perspectives on parenthood and politics in Canada’s House of Commons
Canada’s members of parliament (MPs) work long hours, travel frequently, and spend weeks away from home each year. Research on gender and politics finds that parliamentary work is not designed to accommodate those with caring obligations, usually women. In this paper, we leverage a survey of sitting Canadian MPs conducted in 2022 to assess whether women MPs report greater difficulty combining a political career with family life and to identify pa…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Legislature (3 works) · Parliament (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)