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Author Kittilson, Miki Caul.

Title Challenging Parties, Changing Parliaments Women and Elected Office in Contemporary Western Europe / Miki Caul Kittilson.

Publication Info. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2006.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015.
©2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Parliaments and legislatures
Parliaments and legislatures series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index.
Contents Women, parties, and political power -- Opportunity structures: the key to womens access -- Change from the inside out: women in party leadership -- Rule changes to increase womens parliamentary presence: the diffusion of candidate gender quotas -- Britain: women, parties, and the House of Commons -- Germany: women, parties, and the Bundestag -- Finland: women, parties, and the Eduskunta -- Increasing access to parliaments: a model for change -- Conclusions: implications for party theory and underrepresented groups -- Afterword: women and parties navigate in a new era, 19982004 -- Appendix A List of sources for party variables used in the study -- Appendix B List of sources for survey data.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject Political parties -- European Union countries.
Political parties.
European Union countries.
Women legislators -- European Union countries.
Women legislators.
Women -- Political activity -- European Union countries.
Women -- Political activity.
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9780814272565
0814272568
0814210155 cloth alkaline paper
081425148X paperback alkaline paper
9780814251485