Gender quota laws are intended to increase the number of women elected to legislatures,
but initial evidence suggests that many laws have had little effect. I present a cross‐national …

Die gleichberechtigte Mitwirkung der Geschlechter am politischen und öffentlichen Leben ist
eine demokratische und menschenrechtliche Grundforderung. Sie findet sich in einer …

Many studies examine the composition of state and federal judiciaries, but looking at who is
currently serving on the bench only tells part of the representation story. To understand how …

This paper tries to assess the effect of some institutional and political variables (district and
party magnitude) on women's legislative recruitment vis-à-vis social factors (operationalized …

This article examines the extent of participation by women in Trinidad and Tobago in the
general (2001 and 2002) and local government elections (1996). This article contends that …