WMST 391-500: Course Description
"Women in Government around the World" will explore factors that affect representation of women in governments around the globe, with an emphasis on democratic systems in developed and developing countries. The literature emphasizes 3 types of factors: cultural, socioeconomic, and political/institutional that are hypothesized to affect both the supply of potential female officials and also the demand for women in government, and the course will explore each in turn and in combination. It will also examine the effect of international diffusion on women's representation. The course will focus specifically on women's representation in the legislative and executive branches of democratic governments, looking both at what conditions facilitate getting women into government, and also at what women do once they are there, exploring whether women officials do their job differently than men.
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