Quotas for women in politics : gender and candidate selection reform worldwide /

In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than one hundred countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office. Despite the rapid international diffusion of these measures, most research has focused on single countries - or, at most, th...

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Autore principale: Krook, Mona Lena
Natura: Printed Book
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Soggetti:
Women > Political activity > Statistics.
Women politicians > Statistics.
Women > Political activity > Cross-cultural studies.
Women politicians > Cross-cultural studies.
Accesso online:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008032447.html
Sommario:
  • Introduction to gender quotas
  • The adoption of gender quotas
  • The implementation of gender quotas
  • Reserved seats in Pakistan and India
  • Party quotas in Sweden and the United Kingdom
  • Legislative quotas in Argentina and France
  • Conclusions and directions for future research.

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