Gender serves as a lens that makes visible important issues in the
field of representation: Whom do elected politicians represent?
What is at stake in the parliamentary process? What do we know
about the interplay between parliaments and the everyday lives of
citizens? It is widely understood that women's presence in
government matters but we need to understand the conditions under
which it matters more clearly. Using Sweden as a case study, a
country where the number of women elected to the national
parliament has steadily risen since the 1970s, Lena Wangnerud
presents a novel approach on which characteristics inside a
parliament help translate physical representation into substantive
representation for women. Using three guiding principles: (i) the
implementation of equal opportunities for women and men to
influence internal parliamentary working procedures; (ii) the
creation of room for women's interests and concerns on the
political agenda; and (iii) the production of gender-sensitive
legislation, Wangnerud shows what are the necessary conditions for
women's needs, interests, and concerns to be adequately integrated
into parliamentary processes. The Principles of Gender-Sensitive
Parliaments book adds fuel to all these classical debates within
the field of political representation and will bring attention to a
wider audience on why electing women matters.
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