Women in political decision-making in the SADC region

Agenda

Volumn 19, Issue 65, 2005, Pages 17-31

  Sadie, Yolanda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

elections; gender quotas; SADC; women's representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349007570     PISSN: 10130950     EISSN: 2158978X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2005.9674616     Document Type: Article

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