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Representing women in parliament : a comparative study / edited by Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble.
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- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in comparative politics ; 14.
- Routledge research in comparative politics ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity.
- Women.
- Women legislators.
- Representative government and representation.
- Legislative bodies.
- Comparative government.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Contents:
- Introduction : patterns and practice in the parliamentary representation of women / Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble
- Women's electoral representation in Australia / Ian McAllister
- Women's representation in the Canadian House of Commons / Lisa Young
- climbing on : rules, values and women's representation in the New Zealand parliament / Elizabeth McLeay
- Women and Westminster : descriptive representation in the United Kingdom / Donley T. Studlar
- When women support xomen : EMILY's List and the substantive representation of women in Australia / Marian Sawer
- When do women count? : substantive representation of women in Canadian legislatures / Linda Trimble
- The 'new world'? : the substantive representation of women in New Zealand / Sandra Grey
- The house turned upside down? : the difference Labour's women MPs made / Sarah Childs
- Descriptive and substantive representation in new parliamentary spaces : the case of Scotland / Fiona Mackay
- women and constitutional reform : gender parity in the National Assembly for Wales / Paul Chaney
- women in Northern Ireland's politics : feminising an 'armed patriarchy' / Yvonne Galligan
- Paradise lost? : gender parity and the Nunavut experience / Manon Tremblay and Jackie F. Steele
- Conclusion : gendering political representation in the old and new worlds of Westminster / Jennifer Curtin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415393167
- OCLC:
- 62118268
- Publisher Number:
- 9780415393164
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- Publisher description
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