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This article asks, "What effect does the choice of a nation's electoral system have on the gender composition of its parliament over time?" I find that the electoral system has an important part to play, but previous work has overstated, by factors of between two and three, how much of a difference an electoral system can make. This article contributes an updated nonlinear theory of female representation, an improved dataset on women's representation across space and time, and more modern statistical techniques than previously used in research on this question.

AbstractWe critique the typical use of visual aids at political science
conferences and make suggestions about more effective ways to
incorporate them into presentations. Our main suggestions are that
political scientists should use fewer and simpler slides, and that
those slides should contain visually rich
information that illustrates a speaker's point without distracting
the audience from his or her words.

AbstractWe provide advice to presenters at political science conferences. Our
advice is based on the idea that the goal of a professional
presentation is to provide an audience with information it can
understand, discuss, and remember. We argue that current
presentational norms in our discipline are counterproductive, and we
encourage presenters to make their presentations more constrained,
less technical, and more connected to the political world outside of
political science.