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Book Summary of Women, Quotas and Politics
Although highly controversial, electoral gender quotas have been introduced in more than fifty countries around the world to improve women`s representation in national parliaments and political parties.
"Women, Quotas and Politics" offers the first global comparative analysis of the new trend to introduce gender quotas in public elections in order to achieve gender balance in political institutions. This book presents cutting-edge research about the discursive controversies and actual implementation processes in countries with quota provisions. Providing a quantitative and qualitative assessment of these quotas in a variety of political systems, from developing nations and new democracies to established democracies, the contributors evaluate how they have been implemented; where these quotas have succeeded and failed; and how they can contribute to the political empowerment of women.
Making an important contribution to our knowledge about gender politics worldwide, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of democracy, policy-making, comparative politics and gender studies.
This is the first world-wide, comparative study of the controversial new trends of gender quotas now emerging in global politics, presenting a comprehensive overview of changes in womena (TM)s parliamentary representation across the world.
This is important reading for all those working to increase womena (TM)s influence in politics, because it scrutinizes under what circumstances gender quotas do increase womena (TM)s representation a " and why they sometimes fail. isbn
9780415375498
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Pages : 304
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