Title: Quotas as a \"fast track\" to equal political representation for women : why Scandinavia is no longer the model

Authors: Dahlerup, Drude and Freidenvall, Lenita

Place: Stockholm

Publisher: Stockholm university. Department of political science

Year: 2003

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Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Keywords: women, affirmative action programmes, political representation, argentina, costa rica, south africa, nordic countries

Abstract: This article analyses quota discourses, identifies different quota systems and discusses which factors have facilitated the introduction of electoral gender quotas, contrasting the Scandinavian development with experience in Argentina, Costa Rica and South Africa in the last decades.

URL: http://www.statsvet.su.se/quotas/APSA5.doc

Document type: Portal