Honors Program Theses
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Open Access Honors Program Thesis
First Advisor
Christopher Larimer
Abstract
This paper examines whether descriptive representation, in terms of gender, affects substantive representation among female legislators in a single state legislature. Data are collected from the 82nd General Assembly of the Iowa state legislature's lower-house. The unit of analysis is the individual bill. Controlling for legislator and district characteristics, I test whether legislator gender has an independent effect on the likelihood of the introduction of healthcare legislation. Utilizing the substantive representation index, and logistic regression with robust-cluster-standard-errors, I find that males introduce more healthcare bills when compared to females. The implications of this finding in terms of legislative representation are then discussed.
Year of Submission
2008
Department
Department of Political Science
University Honors Designation
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors
Date Original
12-2008
Object Description
1 PDF file (28 pages)
Copyright
©2008 Ashley Wilson Huth
Recommended Citation
Huth, Ashley Wilson, "The Effect of Gender on Health Care Policy in the State Legislature" (2008). Honors Program Theses. 820.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/820
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