Work and power: The connection between female labor force participation and female political representation

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages 479-495

  Iversen, Torben ^a   Rosenbluth, Frances ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Personalistic and party centered electoral systems; Political labor markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 47549093603     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.053106.151342     Document Type: Article

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