How Women Won or Lost in the Japanese Lower House Election: Case Studies of Women Candidates Who Ran as Challengers

PS - Political Science and Politics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 221-224

  Aiuchi, Masako ^a  

^a Hokkaido Asaigakuen University   (Japan)

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EID: 85012489730     PISSN: 10490965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S104909650100035X     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. This is the record high under the New Constitution. Another woman was elected in the special election of October 2000, elevating women to 7.6% of the House of Representatives.
2. Richard Matland and D. Studiar. 1998. “Gender and the Electoral Opportunity Structure in the Canadian Provinces.” Political Research Quarterly 51:117–140.