Fifty/fifty by 2020

International Feminist Journal of Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 348-368

  Bauer, Gretchen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electoral gender quotas; Party quotas; Reserved seats; Women in African parliaments

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249493743     PISSN: 14616742     EISSN: 14684470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616740802185668     Document Type: Review

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