¿Solo importa el género? Análisis de las percepciones de los parlamentarios españoles sobre la representación política descriptiva y sustantiva

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Yuste, Raquel Pastor Iglesias-Onofrio, Marcela
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	This paper analyses the perceptions that Spanish MPs have about the descriptive and substantive dimensions of political representation and the implications that these would have on the practice of representative democracy. Drawing on 18 in-depth interviews with members of congress and senate in the seventh legislature (2000–2004), of both sexes and from all political parties, we make a typology of discourses MPs have about these two dimensions of political representation before the Law of Equality came into force in 2007. Using an original analytical framework for the qualitative study of political representation, the study reveals that attributes belonging to both the actors and the context underlie the differences in the interviewees’ discourses. Adding to previous literature, results suggest that sex (and the gender role linked) is not the only and determinant factor to understand MPs’ definition of political representation. Other variables from the context appear to be crucial.
Starting Page	135
Ending Page	159
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.5209/POSO.55506
Volume Number	55
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/POSO/article/download/55506/4564456547220
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.5209/POSO.55506
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article