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

  1. Pastor Yuste, Raquel 1
  2. Iglesias Onofrio, Marcela 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Cádiz
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    Universidad de Cádiz

    Cádiz, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04mxxkb11

Revista:
Política y sociedad

ISSN: 1130-8001,  1988-3129

Any de publicació: 2018

Títol de l'exemplar: Historia y ciencias sociales: nuevas perspectivas de análisis

Volum: 55

Número: 1

Pàgines: 135-159

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.5209/POSO.55506 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccés obert editor

Altres publicacions en: Política y sociedad

Resum

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.

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El material empírico utilizado en este trabajo se recogió en el marco del proyecto “El estilo de la clase política en España: Agenda y liderazgo”, financiado por la Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología del gobierno de España y el Instituto de la Mujer.

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