Quotas for women in politics gender and candidate selection reform worldwide

In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than 100 countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office. This book addresses quotas as a global phenomenon in order to provide greater analytical leverage in explaining their spread and imp...

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Main Author: Krook, Mona Lena
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2009, c2009
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