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The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
Christopher F. Karpowitz
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Description for The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
Paperback. Num Pages: 472 pages, 43 line illus. 48 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 664.
Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group ultimately decides. It argues that efforts to improve the representation of women will fall short unless they address institutional rules that impede women's voices. Using groundbreaking experimental research supplemented with analysis of school boards, Christopher Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg ... Read more
Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group ultimately decides. It argues that efforts to improve the representation of women will fall short unless they address institutional rules that impede women's voices. Using groundbreaking experimental research supplemented with analysis of school boards, Christopher Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
663g
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691159768
SKU
V9780691159768
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About Christopher F. Karpowitz
Christopher F. Karpowitz is associate professor of political science and associate director of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University. Tali Mendelberg is professor of politics at Princeton University. She is the author of The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality (Princeton).
Reviews for The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
Co-Winners of the 2015 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2015 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2015 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology This book examines the extent of the contributions by men and women ... Read more