Governing Well after War: How Improving Female Representation Prolongs Post-conflict Peace
| العنوان: | Governing Well after War: How Improving Female Representation Prolongs Post-conflict Peace |
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| المؤلفون: | Sarah Shair-Rosenfield, Reed M. Wood |
| المصدر: | The Journal of Politics. 79:995-1009 |
| بيانات النشر: | University of Chicago Press, 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 021110 strategic, defence & security studies, Sociology and Political Science, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Social Welfare, Legislature, 02 engineering and technology, Public administration, Democracy, Independence, 0506 political science, Representation (politics), Politics, Good governance, Political science, 050602 political science & public administration, Settlement (litigation), media_common |
| الوصف: | Previous studies suggest that women’s access to political power often increases following the termination of civil conflicts, particularly those ending in negotiated settlement. However, the effect of these changes has received limited attention. We argue that the proportion of female representatives in a national legislature prolongs peace following a negotiated settlement. Moreover, we highlight two mechanisms through which greater female representation reduces the risk of conflict recurrence: (1) by prioritizing social welfare spending over military spending and (2) by improving public perceptions of good governance and the credibility of political elites. We further argue that legislative independence and authority conditions this relationship, implying that greater female representation is more likely to promote peace in states with nominally democratic political institutions. Our empirical analyses of peace duration following negotiated settlements between 1946 and 2011 provide robust support for ou... |
| تدمد: | 1468-2508 0022-3816 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/691056 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a29a4016d1293a1ec94f5b8a061dd527 https://doi.org/10.1086/691056 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........a29a4016d1293a1ec94f5b8a061dd527 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14682508 00223816 |
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| DOI: | 10.1086/691056 |