Gendering Legislative Behavior Barnes Tiffany D.
Gendering Legislative Behavior Barnes Tiffany D. In democracies, power is obtained via competition. This is puzzling: why, if politicians can secure power through competition, would we observe…
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Gendering Legislative Behavior Barnes Tiffany D.
In democracies, power is obtained via competition. This is puzzling: why, if politicians can secure power through competition, would we observe collaboration in Congress? Yet, as women gain access to parliaments in record numbers, worldwide collaboration appears to be on the rise.
Although only the majority can secure power via competition, all legislators - particularly those who do not have power - can influence the policy-making process through collaboration. Using evidence from 200 interviews with politicians from Argentina and a novel dataset from 23 Argentine legislative chambers over an 18-year period, Gendering Legislative Behavior reexamines traditional notions of competitive democracy by evaluating patterns of collaboration among legislators. Tiffany D.
Barnes argues that as women have limited access to formal and informal political power, they collaborate more than men to