Yazar
Gerring, J., Jerzak, C. T., Öncel, Erzen
Basım Tarihi
2023
Basım Yeri
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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
