Challenging Parties, Changing Parliaments : Women and Elected Office in Contemporary Western Europe /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kittilson, Miki Caul
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2006.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Partei Politik Frau Women > Political activity. Women legislators. Political parties. Femmes > Activite politique > Pays de l'Union europeenne. Partis politiques > Pays de l'Union europeenne. Femmes parlementaires > Pays de l'Union europeenne. Femmes en politique > Pays de l'Union europeenne. Political parties > European Union countries. Women legislators > European Union countries. Women > Political activity > European Union countries. European Union countries. Europäische Union Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Women, parties, and political power
Opportunity structures: the key to womens access
Change from the inside out: women in party leadership
Rule changes to increase womens parliamentary presence: the diffusion of candidate gender quotas
Britain: women, parties, and the House of Commons
Germany: women, parties, and the Bundestag
Finland: women, parties, and the Eduskunta
Increasing access to parliaments: a model for change
Conclusions: implications for party theory and underrepresented groups
Afterword: women and parties navigate in a new era, 19982004
Appendix A List of sources for party variables used in the study
Appendix B List of sources for survey data.

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