Developing Democracy in Kosova: From Grass Roots to Government

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 99-108+i+v

  Corrin, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 10744220233     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/parlij/55.1.99     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. The spelling Kosova (rather than Kosovo) is used as this is how the majority population speak of where they live.
2. This party later dropped 'Progressive' to become the Democratic Party of Kosova (PDK).
3. C.P. White, 'On Promissory Notes' in S. Kruks et al (eds), Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism, Monthly Review Press, 1989, p. 352.
4. This international advocacy of party development continues alongside evidence of major membership decline across all the long-established European Democracies. See also P. Mai and I. van Biezen, 'Party Members in 20 European Democracies 1980-2000', Party Politics, Spring 2000.
5. Due to the boycott, no Kosovar Serb Parties were registered.
6. Inter-Parliamentary Union, Men and Women in Politics: Democracy Still in the Making - A World Comparative Study, IPU, 1997, p. 12.
7. See C. Corrin, 'Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Gender Analysis in Kosova', International Journal of Feminist Politics, Spring 2001.
8. A global initiative hosted by the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
9. See 'Gender Audit of Reconstruction Programmes in South Eastern Europe', www.wcrwc.org.
10. The work of the Gender Taskforce of the Stability Pact in their electoral coordination of women's campaigns has been wide-reaching across the whole region and has provided many opportunities for regional networking. The 'Women Can Do It' (WCDI) training model was developed before the Gender Taskforce had been established.
11. The Media Project of Radio 21 provides training for women in journalism and conflict resolution. It also produces a monthly magazine for women, Eritrea.
12. Independent, 25.7.00.
13. OCSE, Women in Municipal Elections, 2000.
14. Section 4:2 of UNMIK/REG/2000/3G dated 8 July 2000 states: 'Each candidates' list shall include at least 30% female candidates in the first 15 candidates. Within the first fifteen candidates on each candidates' list, at least one female shall be placed among the first three candidates, and at least one female shall be placed in each full set of three candidates thereafter. This rule shall not apply to those lists comprised of less than three candidates.'
15. A. Fouque cited in G. Ashworth, Equal Rule? Women, Men, Democracy and Governance, CHANGE, 1998, p. 24.
16. This ad hoc election coalition based the design and distribution of leaflets with questionnaires on women and politics on the idea that women often make up 51 % of the population.
17. This was a syndrome by which rural women were drafted into committees to make up the quota of 'women' but not given the political education or documentation to enable full participation.