Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide

by Mona Lena Krook (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $123.02

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $43.16

  In recent years, parties and legislatures in more than 100 countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office. This book addresses quotas as a global phenomenon and develops a framework for explaining their adoption and mixed effects on the numbers of women elected.