Can Institutional Reform Have a Lasting Impact on the Policy Agenda? Evidence From the 10-1 in Austin, TX.
Institutional reforms to districted city councils from at-large systems are typically motivated by the desire to increase geographic and descriptive representation, enriching representation for historically excluded groups. The policy impact of descriptive representation, however, has been found to...
| Publicado en: | Urban Affairs Review Vol. 58; no. 6; pp. 1689 - 1719 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Nov2022
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