Women in parliaments: Descriptive and substantive representation

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 12, Issue , 2009, Pages 51-69

  Wängnerud, Lena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Established democracies; Feminist awareness; Gender equality; Women's interests

Indexed keywords

EID: 69049087017     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.053106.123839     Document Type: Article

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