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Hanna Bäck

Professor

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Who Takes the Parliamentary Floor? The Role of Gender in Speech-making in the Swedish Riksdag

Author

  • Hanna Bäck
  • Marc Debus
  • Jochen Müller

Summary, in English

Legislative speeches are an important instrument for parties and members of parliament (MPs) to signal their positions and priorities. This raises the question of who speaks when. We evaluate whether a MP’s presence on the floor depends on his or her gender. We hypothesize that female MPs give in general less speeches in parliament and that

this pattern results from debates dealing with “harder” policy issues. Our expectations are supported when analyzing a new data set containing information on the number and content of speeches given in the Swedish Riksdag between 2002 and 2010.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

504-518

Publication/Series

Political Research Quarterly

Volume

67

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • parliamentary speeches
  • gender
  • policy areas
  • Swedish Riksdag

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1938-274X