Data di Pubblicazione:
2016
Citazione:
Gender and committee assignment in the European Parliament / F. Franchino, L.C. Papavero, F. Zucchini (Quaderni di Biblioteca della libertà). - In: Quaderni di Biblioteca della Libertà nuova serie on line n.2 2016 "Gender and Substantive Representation" / F. Franchino, L.C. Papavero, F. Zucchini ; [a cura di] L.C. Papavero, F. Zucchini. - Prima edizione. - Torino : Centro di Ricerca e Documentazione Luigi Einaudi, 2016 Sep. - ISBN 978-88-909417-7-1. - pp. 7-30
Abstract:
Studies on female legislative behavior suggest that women parliamentarians may challenge party cohesion by allying across party lines. However, evidence is mixed, and how and why
gender cohesion within the legislature may emerge and whether it is actually a threat to party cohesion are still open questions.
In this chapter we analyze a specific parliamentary activity - bill co-sponsorship - in the Italian lower Chamber, between 1979 and 2016, as a source of information about mps’ original preferences
to study how gender affects party cohesion and gender cohesion. Do women form a separated group in the Italian parliament? On average, are they more or less distant from the center of their parties than men? Does gender affect systematically party cohesion? A principal component analysis of co-sponsorship data allows us to identify the ideal points of all mps in a multidimensional space for each legislature. Based on these data we estimate the impact of gender on party cohesion at the individual level while controlling for the impact of several other variables of different kind (individual, partisan and institutional). We find that:
1) on average, women show lower cohesion as a group inside different parties and higher party cohesion than men; 2) the influence of gender on party cohesion is not conditional upon
individual characteristics, upon the size and organization of parliamentary parties and upon the share of women in their parliamentary groups; 3) the different behavior of women mps may depend on the different patterns of recruitment in the parties.
Tipologia IRIS:
03 - Contributo in volume
Keywords:
Gender and Politics; Descriptive representation; Substantive representation; Committee assignment; European Parliament.
Elenco autori:
F. Franchino, L.C. Papavero, F. Zucchini
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Titolo del libro:
Quaderni di Biblioteca della Libertà nuova serie on line n.2 2016 "Gender and Substantive Representation"