Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond - Advances and Setbacks in the Last Two Decades (Hardcover, New edition)

This book studies the adoption and diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond. Gender quotas are institutional mechanisms intended to increase the proportion of women rapidly and effectively in key decision-making political posts. Since the 1980s, gender quotas have been implemented in various governmental bodies and, more commonly, in legislatures. Starting in Northern Europe, these policies have expanded to other European countries and later to thirteen Latin American countries. Yet, whereas gender quotas in most European countries - with the exception of Belgium and France - have been adopted voluntarily by some political parties, in Latin America national legislation mandates all parties to include in their lists a quota for women candidates to legislatures. Although recent scholarship on gender quotas has been devoted to the adoption of gender quotas in a variety of countries, little has been done on Central and South America, despite the fact that the legislative "quota wave" originated there. Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond remedies that situation and provides a rich comparative analysis of this policy proliferation in Latin America as well as outside this region by also examining the adoption of legislative quotas in Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Latin America, 19
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	2012
Editors:	Adriana Piatti-Crocker
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	263
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-1087-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	1-4331-1087-3
Barcode:	9781433110870

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