Women in Electoral Politics - Lessons from Norway

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Women in Politics in a Comparative Scandinavian Context
Factors Related to High Female Political Representation in Norway
The Role of the Women's Movement in Norwegian Women's Attainment of High Political Representation
Norwegian Politicians' Perceptions of the Effects of Increased Women's Representation
The Significance of Increasing Numbers of Women
Politics at a Gendered Institution
Conclusion: Engendering Political Equality
Bibliography

About the author

JILL M. BYSTYDZIENSKI is Professor of Sociology at Franklin College in Indiana. She is the author of Women Transforming Politics: Worldwide Strategies for Empowerment (1992) and Women in Cross-Cultural Tansitions (1994).

Product details

• Authors: Jill M Bystydzienski, Jill M. Bystydzienski
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.1995
• EAN: 9780275951085
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95108-5
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Politics & government, Politics and government, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Politics, Law, and Government: Comparative Politics