Abstract
Lacking tools to measure substantive representation, empirical research to date has determined women's substantive representation by identifying women's interests a priori, with little attention to differences across race, class, or other inequalities. To address this problem, I develop the concept of intersectional interests and a method for identifying these. Intersectional interests represent multiple perspectives and are forged through a process of political intersectionality that purposefully includes historically marginalized perspectives. These interests can be parsed into three types: expansionist, integrationist, and reconceived. Identification of intersectional interests requires, first, an inductive mapping of the differing women's perspectives that exist in a specific context and then an examination of the political processes that lead to these new, redefined interests. I demonstrate the concept of intersectional interests and how to identify these in Bolivia, where I focus on the political process of forging reconceived intersectional interests in Bolivia's political parity and pension reforms.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 433-459 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Politics and Gender |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2018Â.
Keywords
- Bolivia
- Latin America
- intersectionality
- pensions
- political interests
- political parity
- political representation
- women's substantive representation