CHALLENGING PARTIES, CHANGING PARLIAMENT: Women and Elected Office in Contemporary Western Europe

by MIKI CAUL KITTILSON

The Ohio State University Press, 2006

Cloth: 978-0-8142-1015-4 | Paper: 978-0-8142-5148-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8142-7256-5 (institutional)

Library of Congress Classification HQ1236.5.E85K57 2006

Dewey Decimal Classification 324.2082094

Contents
						
List of Illustrations				
Acknowledgments
				
Chapter 1	Women, Parties, and Political Power
Chapter 2 	Opportunity Structures: The Key to Women¿s Access		
Chapter 3 	Change from the Inside Out: Women in Party Leadership			
Chapter 4 	Rule Changes to Increase Women¿s Parliamentary Presence: 	 	
	The Diffusion of Candidate Gender Quotas	
Chapter 5	Britain: Women, Parties, and the House of Commons		
Chapter 6	Germany: Women, Parties, and the Bundestag		
Chapter 7	Finland: Women, Parties, and the Eduskunta			
Chapter 8 	Increasing Access to Parliaments: A Model for Change	 	
Chapter 9 	Conclusions: Implications for Party Theory and Underrepresented Groups		
Chapter 10	Afterword: Women and Parties Navigate in a New Era, 1998¿2004
		
Appendix A	List of Sources for Party Variables Used in the Study
Appendix B	List of Sources for Survey Data
Notes				 	
References				 	
Index

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