Judging gender quotas: Predictions and results

Policy and Politics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 407-425

  Dahlerup, Drude ^a   Freidenvall, Lenita ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Descriptive representation; Gender quotas; Predictions; Substantive representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956249562     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: 14708442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/030557310X521080     Document Type: Article

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