Varieties of Power - Womens Political Representation in Arab Parliaments

Drawing on a decade of fieldwork and a vast data set collected across the Middle East and North Africa, Marwa Shalaby develops a new theory of women's political representation in authoritarian regimes.

About the author

Marwa Shalaby is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the coeditor of Empowering Women After the Arab Spring (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Marwa Shalaby
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2025
• EAN: 9780231218665
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21866-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Political Science, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Middle East, Comparative Politics, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls