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Political representation aims at bringing about and implementing politically binding decisions. In doing so, elected … representation - i.e. when women act for women - translate into power in the sense of the adoption of policies that reflect women …'s substantive representation. First, we discuss the literature on women's interests. Then, we engage in the scholarship on women …
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quest for parliamentary representation. Using data collected for 18 Western European countries for the period 1960-2010, the …
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The article provides the first large-scale study of protest activities by political parties. The empirical analysis draws on original protest event data for 30 European countries based on semi-automated coding of news agencies. The article innovates by (a) proposing a standardized indicator for...
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substantive representation, this article opens up the dimensions in which populist parties might challenge or aid democratic … representation. It then places the articles in the Special Issue ‘Populist Representation of, by and for the People?’ along these …
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We demonstrate that political geography has value to firms. We do so by exploiting shocks to political maps that occur around redistricting cycles in the United States. These keep some firms in Congressional districts that are largely unchanged at one extreme and reassign other firms to entirely...
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We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they are elected. Exposure to female leaders in state legislatures in India increases the likelihood that female constituents in rural areas report experiencing physical violence...
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Compares cosmopolitan versus communitarian issue positions by mass publics and elites across our study. We investigate whether there is an attitude gap between elites, who tend to adhere to cosmopolitan positions, and mass publics with more communitarian leanings. Contrasting mass opinion...
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Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We … analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin color, race, gender, and age in award-winning children's books widely … of, and demand for, books with different levels of representation to better understand the economic behavior that may …
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In this paper, we consider the strategic asset allocation of an insurance company. This task can be seen as a special case of portfolio optimization. In the 1950s, Markowitz proposed to formulate portfolio optimization as a bicriteria optimization problem considering risk and return as...
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The representation of consumer interests in Germany shows an insufficient consumer participation. Coincidentally, the … representation and possible false conclusions on the level of consumer protection. Consumer representation requires the knowledge of … would allow for a more legitimate representation of consumer interests and also a differentiated composition of consumer …
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