Who knows best what the people want: Women or men?: A study of political representation in India

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-55

  Lindgren, Karl Oskar ^a   Inkinen, Magdalena ^b   Widmalm, Sten ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish National Agency for Higher Education   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Democracy; Gender; India; Opinion congruence; Political representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349083204     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414008324992     Document Type: Article

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