Beyond supply and demand: A feminist-institutionalist theory of candidate selection

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 707-720

  Krook, Mona Lena ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; race or identity; representation and electoral systems; women and politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649887780     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912909336275     Document Type: Article

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