Title: A guide to New Brunswick, British North America, &c. /
Authors: Atkinson, Christopher W.
Publisher: Anderson & Bryce,
Year: 1843
Subjects: New Brunswick Description and travel.
Abstract: ""Exceptionally well theorized, methodologically regorous, and carefully empirical, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer's study of women's political representation in Latin America is a welcome addition to the women and representation scholarship that has until now relied on North American and West European cases. Marshaling data from across Latin America and case-study evidence from Argentina, Colombia, and Costa Rica, Schwindt-Bayer investigates representation not just in terms of women's physical presence or policy choices: she also examines the structuring of women's representational opportunities within specific legislative contexts, employing a sophisticated conceptualization of representation and drawing insightful conclusions about women's legislative presence for citizens' evaluations of democracy.^
Contents: A theory of women's political representation -- Descriptive representation : electing women in Latin America -- Preferences and priorities : gender and the political attitudes of legislators -- Making policy : bill sponsorship, cosponsorship, and debates -- Taking charge : leadership and committees -- Working in the district : home style -- Symbolic representation : evoking support for the political system -- Women's representation in Latin American legislatures.