Representing Women?: Female Legislators in West European Parliaments
Mercedes Mateo Diaz
March, 2008
Paper, 276 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-9547966-4-8
European Consortium for Political Research Press
$32.50
The book represents an attempt to further bridges between mainstream theory on representation, and gender and politics theory, while offering a significant amount of empirical evidence. It links political input and output by tackling the democratic process from three different angles: (1) the mechanisms to access the representative institutions, (2) how do the representatives perform once they are elected, and (3) how well the MP’s opinions match the voters’ opinions, or how well does the ‘electoral connection’ function in substantive terms.
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About the Author
Mercedes Mateo Diaz currently works within the department of Institutional Capacity ad Finance for the Inter-American Development Bank. She previously was FNRS postdoctoral fellow at the University of Louvain (UCL-Belgium). She has been a postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at the Robert Schumann Center (European University Institute), where she previously held a Jean Monnet Fellowship. She was research fellow at the Inter-University Centre for Electoral and for Political Opinion Research (Belgium), and visiting researcher at the University of Göteborg granted by the TMR network "Representation in Europe". She has made a number of significant contributions to edited works and to peer-reviewed journals such as: “Verfassungsexperiment” - Europa auf dem Weg zu einer postnationalen Demokratie, ed. by Liebert, U. et al., LIT-Verlag; Le parachutage politique, ed. by Dolez, B. & Hastings, M, L'Harmattan; Revue Française de Science Politique, South European Society and Politics, Res Publica, Feminist Legal Studies, Opinião Pública, and Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée. She has also co-edited a collection of essays entitled The Future of Gender Equality in the European Union (with Susan Millns) (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2005).
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