Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2018
Abstract
This article conceptualizes an innovative understanding and measurement of women's political leadership, theoretically justifies its application, and analyzes contemporary variation in its patterns through comparative case studies. In recent years, scholars of comparative government have studied with great interest the election of female prime ministers and presidents (e.g., Derichs and Thompson 2013; Jalalzai 2013) and cross-national variation in female members of parliaments (MPs) and cabinets (e.g., Bauer and Tremblay 2011; Paxton and Hughes 2017; Suraj, Scherpereel, and Adams 2014). Yet, when it comes to regions beyond Europe and the Americas, comparative empirical analysis of women's political leadership (WPL) across national-level governments has been largely neglected. Addressing this gap in the literature, we offer a new index that we believe has multiple advantages over the most commonly applied proxies for WPL.
Discipline
Models and Methods | Politics and Social Change
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Politics and Gender
Volume
14
Issue
3
First Page
350
Last Page
375
ISSN
1743-923X
Identifier
10.1017/S1743923X18000120
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP): HSS Journals - No Cambridge Open
Citation
JOSHI, Devin K., & GOEHRUNG, Ryan.(2018). Conceptualizing and measuring women’s political leadership: From presence to balance. Politics and Gender, 14(3), 350-375.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2693
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Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X18000120