CORRELATES OF WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION IN LOWER STATE LEGISLATIVE CHAMBERS Journal Articles

abstract

• This comparative, quantitative analysis complements the varied literature concerning women in politics by illustrating the importance of two domains in that literature: state socio-economic development and political-cultural factors. This analysis supports the observations made in some case studies that women's representation is bound by certain socio-economic parameters. Factors which operationalize the socio-economic development of a state are found more important than political-cultural dimensions of state politics. By supplementing case studies with the comparative aggregate data of this paper, one contributes to a more holistic understanding of women in state politics.

authors

• Jones, Woodrow
• Nelson, Aimee

status

• published 

publication date

• January 1, 1981

has subject area

• 1701 Psychology (FoR)
• 1702 Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Social Psychology (Science Metrix)

published in

• Social Behavior and Personality  Journal

keywords

• Psychology
• Psychology, Social
• Social Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2224/sbp.1981.9.1.9

start page

• 9

end page

• 15

volume

• 9

issue

• 1