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On Political Misogyny
In: American political science review, S. 1-14
ISSN: 1537-5943
Many political scientists hold that vitriolic speech against high-profile women has only negligible effects on other women in politics. They also contend that the prevalence of such vitriol is consistent with gender bias having no significant negative impact on most women in politics. This article argues that these sanguine positions rest on inadequate and untested assumptions regarding misogyny, and the role it plays in politics. In the service of putting us in a position to test the relationship between gendered discourse in particular elections and the structural obstacles faced by women in politics, this article develops a conceptualization of political misogyny: nasty claim-making that instills repugnant connotations into women's collective political identities (e.g., their partisan identities). Attention is also paid to how political misogyny can distribute hatred burdens disproportionately among different groups of women.
What's Missing? A Typology of Political Absence
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 82, Heft 2, S. 559-571
ISSN: 1468-2508
Misogyny and transformations
In: European journal of politics and gender, Band 1, Heft 1-2, S. 131-147
ISSN: 2515-1096
Contemporary politics is marked by both misogyny and transformations. This article offers one way to understand the relationship between these two phenomena, namely, as a double bind. Such an understanding recognises how transformations and misogyny can be mutually constituted and implicated in ways that have not been adequately acknowledged. Some women benefit from misogyny and some women are harmed by transformations. The author identifies four tactics that constrain women in politics and thereby construct double binds. I call these constraints the four faces of misogyny.
Good Representatives Foster Autonomy
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 323-326
ISSN: 1537-5935
Representation in Context: Constructing Victims' Claims in the International Criminal Court
In: Representation, Band 53, Heft 3-4, S. 263-275
ISSN: 1749-4001
Accountability as Resistance: Helping Others be Autonomous?
In: APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper
SSRN
Working paper
Measuring Representation: Rethinking the Role of Exclusion
In: APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
SSRN
Working paper
Multiculturalism Without Culture. By Anne Phillips. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2007. 216 pp. $29.95, cloth, $19.95 paper
In: Politics & gender, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 443-446
ISSN: 1743-9248
In Praise of Exclusion
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 71, Heft 3, S. 1172-1186
ISSN: 1468-2508
In Praise of Exclusion
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 71, Heft 3, S. 1172-1186
ISSN: 0022-3816
Multiculturalism without Culture
In: Politics & gender: the journal of the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 443-446
ISSN: 1743-923X
Theorizing Women's Representation in the United States
In: Politics & gender, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 297-319
ISSN: 1743-9248
From the perspective of women's experiences, it is easy to see that democratic representative institutions can be tools of oppression. After all, formal democratic institutions have been either a form of governance that has only ruled over women (e.g., women were formally prohibited from holding elected offices) or a form of governance in which women have ruled and been ruled unequally (e.g., the number of female representatives have been significantly lower than the number of male representatives). Moreover, informal representative institutions, for example, interest groups, do not seem to work for women as well as they do for powerful men (Strolovitch 2007). These facts suggest that democratic representative institutions need to be viewed suspiciously. We should not assume that representative institutions in democracies necessarily benefit all women. We need to recognize how they can divide women, pitting some women's interests and preferences against other women's interests and preferences. Democratic representative institutions can function to preserve the status quo, distributing benefits unjustly among different men and women.
The Concept of Constituency: Political Representation, Democratic Legitimacy, and Institutional Design
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 4, Heft 4
ISSN: 1541-0986
Book Reviews: POLITICAL THEORY: Andrew Rehfeld, The Concept of Constituency: Political Representation, Democratic Legitimacy, and Institutional Design
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 763
ISSN: 1537-5927