Challenging parties, changing parliaments
Subtitle: women and elected office in contemporary Western Europe
By: Miki Caul Kittilson.
Series: Parliaments and legislatures; Parliaments and legislatures series.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbus, Ohio
Language: eng
Subjects: Women in politics -- European Union countries; Women legislators -- European Union countries; Political parties -- European Union countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women, parties, and political power; title: Opportunity structures: the key to womens access; title: Change from the inside out: women in party leadership; title: Rule changes to increase womens parliamentary presence: the diffusion of candidate gender quotas; title: Britain: women, parties, and the House of Commons; title: Germany: women, parties, and the Bundestag; title: Finland: women, parties, and the Eduskunta; title: Increasing access to parliaments: a model for change; title: Conclusions: implications for party theory and underrepresented groups; title: Afterword: women and parties navigate in a new era, 19982004; title: Appendix A List of sources for party variables used in the study; title: Appendix B List of sources for survey data.