My Heart Says One Thing but My Head Says Another? Men, Women, and the Psychology of Partisanship in Britain

Johns, Robert; Winters, Kristi; Campbell, Rosie

doi:10.1017/s1743923x11000067

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“…Rather, they might instead view politics through the lens of a seemingly rationalised partisanship and ideology, thinking about politics as something that is not tied to their own personal gender identity or other characteristics (Sapiro, 1983). There is some evidence to support this contention, with Robert Johns et al (2011: 197) summarising this literature as providing ‘indirect support for the notion that a social identity account of partisanship is likely to be more accurate for women’. Based on this existing research, we generate the following hypothesis:…”

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Exploring sex differences in attitudes towards the descriptive and substantive representation of women

Allen

Cutts²

2016

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Academic discussions about the political (under-)representation of women tend to focus on descriptive or substantive representationthat is, the numbers of women present in politics or the representation of so-called 'women's interests' in politics. As such, arguments in favour of increases in women's representation tend to invoke either or both of these ideas. Many, for example, argue that an increase in the descriptive representation of women (DRW) may result in an equivalent, or related, increased in the substantive representation of women (SRW) (Pitkin 1973; Lovenduski 2005; Mackay 2008), although the intricacies of what this may actually consist of are contested (Celis et al. 2008). Alternatively, the argument from justice articulates that a descriptive increase is desirable regardless of any resultant impact on substantive representation (Phillips 1995). Similarly, other arguments in favour of increased descriptive representation claim that such an increase will positively affect women, and other under-represented groups, in a symbolic way (Mansbridge 1999; Phillips 2012). As such, there are arguments that focus on substantive political outcomes as a result of any increase in the number of women in political institutions, and those that do not.

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Section: Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%