Increasing diversity or more of the same? Term limits and the representation of women, minorities, and minority women in state legislatures

Contemporary Patterns of Politics, Praxis, and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 71-84

  Carroll, Susan J ^a   Jenkins, Krista ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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