The composition of descriptive representation

Name: The composition of descriptive representation
Author: Gerring, J., Jerzak, C. T., Öncel, Erzen

İsim	The composition of descriptive representation
Yazar	Gerring, J., Jerzak, C. T., Öncel, Erzen
Basım Tarihi:	2023
Basım Yeri	- Cambridge University Press
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	2-s2.0-85170686146
Kayıt Numarası	2dd0b6e7-72aa-4e62-a3ac-94a1f1551b4b
Lokasyon	International Relations
Tarih	2023
Notlar	Frederick S. Pardee Center ; World Bank Group ; Boston University ; Cornell University
Örnek Metin	How well do governments represent the societies they serve? A key aspect of this question concerns the extent to which leaders reflect the demographic features of the population they represent. To address this important issue in a systematic manner, we propose a unified approach for measuring descriptive representation. We apply this approach to newly collected data describing the ethnic, linguistic, religious, and gender identities of over fifty thousand leaders serving in 1,552 political bodies across 156 countries. Strikingly, no country represents social groups in rough proportion to their share of the population. To explain this shortfall, we focus on compositional factors - the size of political bodies as well as the number and relative size of social groups. We investigate these factors using a simple model based on random sampling and the original data described above. Our analyses demonstrate that roughly half of the variability in descriptive representation is attributable to compositional factors.
DOI	10.1017/S0003055423000680

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The composition of descriptive representation

Yazar Gerring, J., Jerzak, C. T., Öncel, Erzen

Basım Tarihi 2023

Basım Yeri - Cambridge University Press

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 2-s2.0-85170686146

Kayıt Numarası 2dd0b6e7-72aa-4e62-a3ac-94a1f1551b4b

Lokasyon International Relations

Tarih 2023

Notlar Frederick S. Pardee Center ; World Bank Group ; Boston University ; Cornell University

Örnek Metin How well do governments represent the societies they serve? A key aspect of this question concerns the extent to which leaders reflect the demographic features of the population they represent. To address this important issue in a systematic manner, we propose a unified approach for measuring descriptive representation. We apply this approach to newly collected data describing the ethnic, linguistic, religious, and gender identities of over fifty thousand leaders serving in 1,552 political bodies across 156 countries. Strikingly, no country represents social groups in rough proportion to their share of the population. To explain this shortfall, we focus on compositional factors - the size of political bodies as well as the number and relative size of social groups. We investigate these factors using a simple model based on random sampling and the original data described above. Our analyses demonstrate that roughly half of the variability in descriptive representation is attributable to compositional factors.

DOI 10.1017/S0003055423000680