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candidate selection
Candidate Selection Process
candidate selection processes
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comparative politics
Constituency Seats
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Electoral Quotas
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Female Candidates
Female Legislators
Female MPs
gender quota effectiveness in democracies
Gender Quotas
Horizontal Discrimination
legislative institutions
legislative studies
Majoritarian Electoral System
non-quota mechanisms
parliamentary behaviour
Plenary Debates
Plenary Proceedings
policy-making
political parties
political party systems
political reform
political representation
Quota Adoption
Quota Design
Quota Implementation
Quota Recipients
Quota Women
Reserved Seat Quota
Reserved Seats
Soft Quotas
Ugandan Parliament
women in politics
Women's Descriptive Representation
women's policy impact
Women's Representation
Women's Substantive Representation
Women’s Descriptive Representation
Women’s Representation
Women’s Substantive Representation

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138907423
  • Weight: 385g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Jul 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Electoral gender quotas have emerged as one of the most critical political reforms of the last two decades, having now been introduced in more than 130 countries worldwide. The recent and global nature of these developments has sparked both scholarly and popular interest in the in which these quotas are designed, as well as their origins and effects.

This volume seeks to expand these existing agendas to forge new directions in research on gender quotas and political representation. The topics considered include new paths to adoption, as well as – in the wake of quota introduction – changes in the dynamics of candidate selection, the status and role of women in legislative institutions, and the impact that women have on policy-making. Expanding the scope of quota studies, the contributions also address trends in different political parties and different levels of government, the effectiveness of quotas in democratic and non-democratic settings, and whether there might be non-quota mechanisms that could be pursued together with, or in lieu of, gender quotas in order to increase women’s political representation.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Representation.
About
Mona Lena Krook is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. She is the author of Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide (2009) and co-editor of The Impact of Gender Quotas (2012). Pär Zetterberg is Researcher in the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research focuses on political recruitment and political representation in comparative perspective, especially in Latin America, with a particular emphasis on the potential for gender quotas to remedy inequalities in politics.