About this eBook
It includes an analysis of the representation of women over time, and presents a critical view of the effectiveness of quotas. Using new data on ethnic groups in legislatures, it makes a significant step forward in the analysis of political representation. The representation of issue positions is examined in eight policy domains, and the book's systematic approach allows a groundbreaking examination of how different forms of representation – women, ethnic groups, issue positions – are interlinked.
Didier Ruedin examines aspects unattainable in studies focusing only on a single form of representation. The result is a comprehensive understanding of political representation, and important and policy-relevant insights for electoral engineering.
About the author
Didier Ruedin (DPhil, Oxford) is a researcher at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He works on various aspects of political representation, including the political representation of women and ethnic groups in national legislatures. His 2009 article on the political representation of ethnic groups in a cross-national perspective won the SNIS International Geneva Award 2010. In 2012, Ruedin was a visiting fellow at the University of Vienna. Other areas of research include the politicisation of immigration, and attitudes toward foreigners.
