Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America

摘要

Leslie Schwindt-Bayer's book will be of great interest to gender and politics scholars, especially those seeking to understand the broader effects of women's growing political presence. The book's main strengths are its comprehensive view of women's political representation and its original empirical investigation of each of its four interrelated facets: formal, descriptive, substantive and symbolic representation. Schwindt-Bayer supports her main argument that each of the four facets of representation is linked to the others with extensive original data from Latin American democracies.