L6 Recap and design

Question 1

Quota (ELECTORAL LIST!)

Answer 1

most significant reform, takes many variations (legislative, voluntary, parity)

can be gender (30-50%) ‘ethnic’ (dependent on context)…

hard/soft implementation

why? = women lobby, party competition, values, international pressure…

Question 2

Verge & de la Fuente: quota transforming power balance within Catalan parties?

Answer 2

F = definition of valuable merit/skills unchanged (masculine behaviour/full-time/segregated)

Informal practices sustain subordination - quota is not all that matters

Question 3

Feminist Democratic Representation? Key Features

Answer 3

Presence is not enough - there is a need for passionate+partial advocacy, fair+just deliberation, strong accountability.

FDR proposes affective representatives of women (new parliamentary groups, group advocacy, and account giving) to open new pathways of dialogue between citizens and law makers.

institutionalisation of ‘not in my name’

Question 4

Feminist Democratic Representation? How it works

Answer 4

AR are representative of their ‘issue’ groups

there is an institutional requirement to reach out to AR when there is a gap between the women’s + CS agenda and parliamentary agenda

PHASE 1:
AR’s participate in GROUP advocacy: to and with elected

PHASE 2:
elected take this knowledge into the deliberation process, knowing that they will return back to the AR to explain decision…in ACCOUNT GIVING

Question 5

Affected representatives are…

Answer 5

epistomologically, experientially and affectively close to those who they represent