Murder, political resources, and women’s political success

Jacobs, David; Paxton, Pamela; Jackson, Aubrey L.; Malone, Chad A.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.09.005

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“…Analyses of the historical legacy of mass killing and genocide notwithstanding, scholars have devoted only limited attention to the link between the severity/ frequency of less severe forms of internal political or social violence and women's descriptive representation. Among the very few exceptions, Jacobs et al (2013) finds that state-level homicide rates are inversely related to women's representation in state assemblies and state delegations to the US Congress. This oversight is somewhat surprising given the (fortunate) rarity of mass atrocities and genocides and the (unfortunate) frequency of other forms of internal violence (e.g., civil conflicts, terrorist campaigns, organized criminal violence, and electoral violence).…”

Section: Security and Gendered Leadershipmentioning

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The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation

Wood

2024

Political Research Quarterly

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Despite the global expansion in women’s access to political leadership in recent decades, female parliamentarians remain a distinct minority in most national legislatures. Previous studies have linked variations in women’s descriptive representation to international and domestic security threats, such as interstate war and transnational terrorist campaigns. However, existing research has thus far overlooked how the turbulence, unrest, and violence often associated with the election process itself may produce gendered electoral outcomes. I argue that violent contention in the period immediately preceding elections introduces gendered distortions to the political recruitment process that determines the gender composition of legislatures. The cumulative effect of these distortions is a reduction in the proportion of legislative seats subsequently held by women. To evaluate my hypothesis, I analyze data from 620 nominally competitive legislative elections in 128 countries between 1990 and 2012. Consistent with expectations, the results suggest that higher levels of election-related violence are associated with lower rates of women's descriptive representation.

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Section: Security and Gendered Leadershipmentioning

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The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation

Wood

2024

Political Research Quarterly

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“…Political science scholars took this opportunity to define the connotation of political costs, arguing that society and the administrative system will consume resources, which leads to administrative inefficiency, public policy failure, or other problems and thereby brings about a decrease in public support and identification with the government, government legitimacy, and political authority. e political resources consumed are termed political costs [17,18].…”

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Analysis of the Mechanism of Political Cost in the Complex Environmental Governance System

Cheng

Zhang

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The emergence of conflicts between environmental safety incidents and protection rights generates sizeable political costs, which endangers the legitimacy of the government as well as political security and stability. This article further examines the role of political costs in environmental issues. First, political costs in relation to environmental issues are defined. An equilibrium strategic analysis is then presented using an evolutionary game model in which the strategic behavioral choices of government, enterprises, and citizens are investigated by embedding political costs in the environmental governance system. Furthermore, the small-signal model was innovatively applied to simulate and analyze the stability of political costs under different equilibrium strategies in the system. The results show the following. (1) Pubic behavior and government are the dominant factors that impact stability and instability, respectively. Public behavior is the core element that affects political cost consumption. (2) When political costs are extremely depleted, the public will neglect economic interests, turn toward environmental interests, and choose the negative participation strategy, which destabilizes the system. (3) The political cost signal at the optimal equilibrium point not only warns the government not to take the desperate action of concealing information asymmetry but also allows the government to let go of its hands to deal with the environmental issues. Corresponding policy recommendations are proposed.

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“…But tests of the influence of women's macro‐level resources on micro‐level outcomes are rare. Research examining the influence of women's macro‐level resources on various outcomes related to women's well‐being (Bolzendahl, ; Huber & Stephens, ; McCammon, Campbell, Granberg, & Mowery, ; Jackson, ; Jacobs, Paxton, Jackson, & Malone, ; Soule & Olzak, ), including violence against women (Vieraitis et al, ; Whaley & Messner, ; Yllö & Straus, ; Yodanis, ), often is limited to just one level of aggregation, such as country, state, or metropolitan area. And although a few studies examined the effect of women's aggregate resources in a multilevel framework (Chen, Subramanian, Acevedo‐Garcia, & Kawachi, ; Fuwa, ; Gracia & Herrero, ; Xie, Heimer, & Lauritsen, ), only Koenig et al () investigated how women's collective status at the community level influences a woman's individual‐level risk of domestic violence victimization.…”

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The Combined Effect of Women's Neighborhood Resources and Collective Efficacy on IPV

Jackson¹

2016

J of Marriage and Family

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The Combined Effect of Women's Neighborhood Resources and Collective Efficacy on IPVThis study integrates gender stratification and social disorganization theories to examine neighborhood effects on intimate partner violence (IPV). Using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, multilevel models assessed the influences of women's neighborhood-level socioeconomic resources relative to men's and collective efficacy on a woman's risk of IPV victimization by her spouse or cohabiting partner. The findings indicate that women's relative neighborhood resources protect against IPV victimization only in neighborhoods with sufficiently high collective efficacy. Likewise, the results show that collective efficacy protects against IPV victimization only when women have at least a modicum of control over neighborhood resources compared to men. The findings emphasize the importance of considering group resources along with neighborhood social organization to better understand IPV. More broadly, this study demonstrates how a group's position in a neighborhood social hierarchy helps determine the extent to which its members benefit from neighborhood social control. BackgroundResearch has suggested that the likelihood of violent victimization in part is explained

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Murder, political resources, and women’s political success

Cited by 7 publications

References 56 publications

The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation

The Effects of Electoral Violence on Women’s Legislative Representation

Analysis of the Mechanism of Political Cost in the Complex Environmental Governance System

The Combined Effect of Women's Neighborhood Resources and Collective Efficacy on IPV

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