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6 - The Patriarchal Political Order

Networks and the Nature of Political Organization

from Part II - The Patriarchal Political Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Soledad Artiz Prillaman
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Chapter 6 illustrates that household political cooperation begets a system of political organization that centers on men. Using network data from a census survey, it describes the structure of the overall village political network, including gender homophily of political ties, centrality in the entire network, and the average degree of connectivity between individuals and political elites. It shows that village political networks are structured such that men comprise the center of the network, while women remain on the periphery. As a result, influence is concentrated among men, and village politics is structured around men’s other intersecting identities, namely caste. It then compares the size and composition of women’s and men’s political networks and show that women are connected to village politics largely through the men in their household. For men, women do not register as political actors. Household political cooperation thus implies strong limits on women’s access to power, influence, and information and yields a broader gender and political system that perpetuates male dominance.

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The Patriarchal Political Order
The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India
, pp. 133 - 158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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