Patterns of substantive representation among visible minority MPs: Evidence from Canada's House of Commons

The Political Representation of Immigrants and Minorities: Voters, Parties and Parliaments in Liberal Democracies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 207-229

  Bird, Karen ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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