User:Bschutz11/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Gender Quotas
 * Evaluation
 * This article doesn't have any content besides a few articles linked that the article may be linked to (such as Women in government's quotas section), earning it a completeness score of 2, despite it being a very prevalent concept in many governments around the world, so it is certainly worthy of its own article.


 * Sources
 * https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0010414098031001001
 * https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/gender-quotas-and-womens-substantive-representation-lessons-from-argentina/7AA9E3D4D0DEB6754A4528FDCCD9811D
 * https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas/quotas
 * https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1203
 * https://www.oecd.org/gender/quotas-gender-equality.htm
 * https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/9120

Option 2

 * Women’s Political Representation in the United States
 * Article Evaluation
 * This is an article that doesn't exist yet, but would be a separation off from the Women in government article and the Gender inequality in the United States article. It is a pertinent topic that deserves more than a small section in a disorganized article and 2 paragraphs in a broader discussion of gender inequality. This article would include statistics showing women's underrepresentation in Congress and government, and would delve into the factors that scholars attribute this discrepancy to, such as voter bias.
 * This is an article that doesn't exist yet, but would be a separation off from the Women in government article and the Gender inequality in the United States article. It is a pertinent topic that deserves more than a small section in a disorganized article and 2 paragraphs in a broader discussion of gender inequality. This article would include statistics showing women's underrepresentation in Congress and government, and would delve into the factors that scholars attribute this discrepancy to, such as voter bias.


 * Sources
 * https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/09/20/women-and-leadership-2018/
 * https://cawp.rutgers.edu/women-elective-office-2021
 * https://data.ipu.org/content/united-states-america?chamber_id=13387

Option 3

 * Voting gender gap in the United States
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has a completeness score of 50 and is C-class, but is very lacking. The causes section leaves a lot to be desired in particular, as it is only a few short paragraphs and there is much more scholarship into this topic for that to be all that is written there. Further, this article has a big issue with intersectionality, as it focuses on white men and women's perspectives.
 * This article has a completeness score of 50 and is C-class, but is very lacking. The causes section leaves a lot to be desired in particular, as it is only a few short paragraphs and there is much more scholarship into this topic for that to be all that is written there. Further, this article has a big issue with intersectionality, as it focuses on white men and women's perspectives.


 * Sources
 * https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1065912917716336
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/polq.12737

Option 4

 * Political Recruitment Model
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has yet to exist, but it's an important concept that is a good way to examine where underrepresentation is coming from. It would contain information concerning supply and demand, and how those factors play into a person's decision to advance from eligible to aspirant, aspirant to candidate, etc. It would delve into how the eligible to aspirant phase is the main phase in which women drop out of the model, leading to women's underrepresentation.
 * This article has yet to exist, but it's an important concept that is a good way to examine where underrepresentation is coming from. It would contain information concerning supply and demand, and how those factors play into a person's decision to advance from eligible to aspirant, aspirant to candidate, etc. It would delve into how the eligible to aspirant phase is the main phase in which women drop out of the model, leading to women's underrepresentation.


 * Sources
 * https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/supply-and-demand-model-of-candidate-selection-some-reflections/739D0511E53F4752046F40A7A9488F8F
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=GlAbudeTSwQC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gbs_navlinks_s
 * https://mlkrook.org/pdf/ps_krook_norris_2014.pdf
 * https://www.american.edu/spa/wpi/upload/girls-just-wanna-not-run_policy-report.pdf

Option 5

 * Institutions and Women's Representation
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has yet to exist, but again would be a separation off from the Women in government article, specifically the "Systematic challenges" section. The article would contain information comparing representation in democratic and non-democratic institutions across time and space, and within democracy, it would discuss the differences in representation in PR and majoritarian systems and examples of strategies used to improve representation.
 * This article has yet to exist, but again would be a separation off from the Women in government article, specifically the "Systematic challenges" section. The article would contain information comparing representation in democratic and non-democratic institutions across time and space, and within democracy, it would discuss the differences in representation in PR and majoritarian systems and examples of strategies used to improve representation.


 * Sources
 * https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2009.01886.x
 * https://www.wedo.org/wp-content/uploads/electoralsystems_5050_factsh3.htm
 * https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/palgrave.ap.5500151.pdf