Women running for neighborhood offices in a Turkish city: Motivations and resources for electoral candidacy

Political Geography

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 362-372

  Senol, Fatma ^a  

^a IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; GENDER ISSUE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD; POLITICAL SYSTEM; URBAN POLITICS; WOMENS STATUS;

ESKISEHIR [ESKISEHIR (PRV)]; ESKISEHIR [TURKEY]; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 70449720554     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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