Women in Mexican Subnational Legislatures: From Descriptive to Substantive Representation
In: Latin American Societies Ser.
Intro -- Women in Mexican Subnational Legislatures -- From Descriptive to Substantive Representation -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Research -- 1.2 Plan of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: They Have the Seats, But Not the Power: The Argument -- 2.1 Political Representation: A Multifaceted Conundrum -- 2.2 Institutions, Feminist Neo-institutionalism, and Gender Representation -- 2.3 Understanding Women's Legislative Representation: Dimensions of Analysis -- 2.3.1 The Formal Dimension of Legislative Representation -- 2.3.2 The Descriptive Dimension of Legislative Representation -- 2.3.3 The Symbolic Dimension of Legislative Representation -- 2.3.4 The Substantive Dimension of Legislative Representation -- 2.4 Factors Explaining Women's Political Representation -- 2.4.1 Political-Institutional Variables -- 2.4.2 Socioeconomic Variables -- 2.4.3 Attitudinal Variables -- 2.4.4 Variables of the Representation (Interactions Between the Dimensions of the Representation) -- 2.5 Methodology: Proposals for Measuring and Explaining Political Representation from a Multidimensional Perspective -- 2.5.1 Case Selection -- 2.5.2 Objectives, Questions, Method, Hypotheses, and Data -- 2.6 Argument and Contribution -- References -- Chapter 3: The Long and Winding Road to Gender Parity in Mexican Congresses -- 3.1 All Politics Is Local! -- 3.2 A Thorny Path: The Evolution of the Federal Gender Electoral Regime in Mexico -- 3.3 Advances and Setbacks in the Construction of the Gender Electoral Regime in the Mexican States -- 3.4 Multilevel, Multi-Stakeholder, and Multi Strategic: Parity in Mexican Congresses -- References -- Personal Interview -- Chapter 4: Why Do Some State Congresses Have More Female Legislators than Others?.