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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Contagious representation
    sub title: women's political representation in democracies around the world
  name:
    name part: Thames, Frank.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Williams, Margaret S. (Margaret Susan)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Women's participation in parliaments, high courts, and executive offices worldwide has reached record high numbers, but this global increase in women's representation masks significant variation among different democratic political systems. For example, in December of 2009, Rwanda's legislature contained 56% women, while the U.S. Congress contained only about 17% and the Japanese Diet had only 11%. Since 2000, only twenty-seven women have achieved executive office worldwide. Contagious Representation is a comprehensive look at women's participation in all aspects of public life in the main democratic political institutions--the executive, the judiciary, the legislature, and within political parties. Moving beyond studies of single countries and institutions, Contagious Representation presents original data from 159 democratic countries spanning 50 years, providing a comprehensive understanding of women in democracies worldwide. The first volume to offer an analysis on all avenues for women's participation for such a lengthy time period, Contagious Representation examines not only the causes of women's representation in the main democratic political institutions but also how women's representation in one institution affects the others. Each chapter contains case studies and examples of the change in women's participation over time from around the world. Thames and Williams definitively explain the rise, decline, or stagnant levels of women's political participation, considering how representation is contagious across political institutions and gaining a better understanding of what factors affect women's political participation"--
  note: Frank C. Thames and Margaret S. Williams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
  subject:
    topic: Women
    topic: Political activity
  subject:
    topic: Women in public life
  subject:
    topic: Representative government and representation
  subject:
    topic: Democratization
  classification: HQ1236 .T43 2013
  classification: 305.4
  classification: POL000000 SOC028000
  identifier: 9780814784174 (hardback)
  identifier: 0814784178 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780814784198 (ebook)
  identifier: 0814784194 (ebook)
  identifier: 9780814784181 (ebook)
  identifier: 0814784186 (ebook)
  identifier: 2012028507
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120725
    record change date: 20151203083922.0
    record identifier: in00002810634
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng