Gender quotas, electoral laws, and the election of women: Evidence from the latin American vanguard

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-81

  Jones, Mark P ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electoral laws; Gender quotas; Latin America; Women's representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349180012     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414008324993     Document Type: Article

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