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it understands the dynamics of political life in terms of the formal political organisations and informal patterns of behaviour which shape the perceptions and decisions of political actors

Observable behaviours, attempting to establish patterns of action.

To investigate quotas with reference to the actions of individual women legislators and understand the differences in attitudes and values on women's issues. Plus, it aims to document that interventions and motivations of political parties and women's organisations in debates over quota implementation and adoption.

Understand the motivations behind quota implementation.

meanings, discourses, ideas, beliefs. What do people understand about feminism and the terms associated with it? What is the interpretation of male dominance?

How do these institutions mirror and enforce gender inequalities The form and impact of quotas, plus the discourses that aid and constrain quota adoption

How do these institutions mirror and enforce gender inequalities The form and impact of quotas, plus the discourses that aid and constrain quota adoption

In A Different Voice. Rejects the ideas of Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development as says that if psychology measures women using a men-oriented gauge then they will inevitably come out not on top. We need to recognise that women are different but that doesn't make them incapable. This type of research only promotes a desire to be like men.

Mary Wollstonecraft

from the 1840s onwards

1848

Legal rights and the franchise. They assumed that changed attitudes would follow from this.

1960s-1980s