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Gender Quotas in South America's Big Three

National and Subnational Impacts

By: Adriana Piatti-Crocker,Gregory D. Schmidt,Clara Araujo

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Gender Quotas in South America's Big Three

National and Subnational Impacts

By: Adriana Piatti-Crocker,Gregory D. Schmidt,Clara Araujo

Since the return of democracy to Latin America, policies intended to promote the inclusion of women and other underrepresented groups have been increasingly adopted throughout the region. Gender quotas have been one of the most popular and effective mechanisms employed in elections and other contexts in Latin America. This volume begins with an introduction to gender quotas, including discussion of the types and merits of gender quotas, alternative approaches to the study of quotas, and their interactions with different kinds of electoral systems. Successive chapters examine the adoption of gender quotas and their impacts in the three largest South American countries by area—Argentina, Brazil, and Peru—at both national and subnational levels. These chapters also focus on specific topics that stand out in the unique experiences of these countries: substantive representation in the case of Argentina, gender and campaign finance in the case of Brazil, and regional differences in the impact of electoral rules in the case of Peru. Through careful analysis, this volume presents a nuanced picture of how different types of electoral systems may affect the election of women and the effectiveness of quotas.

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Lexington Books

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149850017X

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9781498500173

Tough on Hate?

The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes

By: Clara S. Lewis

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Tough on Hate?

The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes

By: Clara S. Lewis

Why do we know every gory crime scene detail about such victims as Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. and yet almost nothing about the vast majority of other hate crime victims? Now that federal anti-hate-crimes laws have been passed, why has the number of these crimes not declined significantly? To answer such questions, Clara S. Lewis challenges us to reconsider our understanding of hate crimes. In doing so, she raises startling issues about the trajectory of civil and minority rights. Tough on Hate is the first book to examine the cultural politics of hate crimes both within and beyond the law. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including personal interviews, unarchived documents, television news broadcasts, legislative debates, and presidential speeches—the book calls attention to a disturbing irony: the sympathetic attention paid to certain shocking hate crime murders further legitimizes an already pervasive unwillingness to act on the urgent civil rights issues of our time. Worse still, it reveals the widespread acceptance of ideas about difference, tolerance, and crime that work against future progress on behalf of historically marginalized communities.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813562325

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9780813562322

Gender Quotas in South America's Big Three

National and Subnational Impacts

By: Adriana Piatti-Crocker,Gregory D. Schmidt,Clara Araujo

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National and Subnational Impacts

By: Adriana Piatti-Crocker,Gregory D. Schmidt,Clara Araujo

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Gender Quotas in South America's Big Three

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Tough on Hate?

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