Invisible Forces
How Contextual Receptiveness to Women Shapes Women’s Representation in the US House
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6409488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Regina Lea Wagner (0000-0003-3846-7899, University of Alabama, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 445-472 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-7732 • E-ISSN: 1540-9473 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1554477x.2019.1602999 |
| OpenAlex | W2944290890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 44 |
Recent political events, ranging from the 2016 presidential election to the "Women's March on Washington," have brought women's interests and their representation in the political process to the forefront. Political representation, however, is a complex and nuanced process, and legislator time and energy are finite resources. Which contextual factors and personal characteristics then make legislators decide to focus their representational activity on one group of constituents rather than another? Looking at floor speeches for the 111th through the 113th Congress, this study argues that while the extent and content of women's representation in the US House are fundamentally dependent on the gender and partisanship of legislators, the precise effect and interaction of gender and partisanship are shaped and conditioned by contextual factors, specifically a political environment of receptiveness to women in positions of political power. This has implications both for researchers trying to understand women's political representation as well as for citizens and political elites engaging in the process of representation
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |