Blair's Babes: Critical Mass Theory, Gender, and Legislative Life

Gender, Critical Mass, and Judicial Decision Making

We examine the role of gender in legal decision making by applying critical mass theory to the U.S. federal district courts. We analyze whether behavioral differences manifest themselves in the decision-making proclivities of male and female judges, contingent on the existence of a critical mass of female judges at a court point (i.e., each city in which a district court is located). Our result...

Legislative liaison as critical intervention.

Women in Late Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age.

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a critical discourse analysis on gender representation in the iranian english books 2, 3 and top notch 2a, 2b a critical discourse analysis perspective

هدف از انجام تحقیق حاضر، مطالعه و بررسی نقش زنان و مردان در دو مجموعه از کتابهای درسی انگلیسی در قالب تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی و همچنین، بررسی و آشکار ساختن اصول ایدوئولوژیکی مربوط به نقش زنان و مردان در این کتابها است. این دو مجموعه کتاب عبارتنداز: کتابهای انگلیسی سال دوم و سوم دبیرستانی ایران و کتابهای تاپ ناچ 2آ و 2ب. برای انجام این منظور، مدل تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی فرکلاف مورد استفاده قرار گرفته ...

Whatever Happened to Critical Mass Theory? A Retrospective and Assessment*

Between 1983 and 1993 the authors published a series of articles and a book promulgating and explicating “Critical Mass Theory,” a theory of public goods provision in groups. In this article we seek to trace the growth, change, or decline of the theory, primarily through an analysis of all journal citations of the theory. We find that the majority of citations are essentially gratuitous or pick...