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This chapter maps several new horizons in women’s political rights, focusing on achievements and ongoing challenges to ensuring that women have equal rights to vote and to run for political office. The chapter focuses in greater depth on the newest horizon, the growing momentum globally to recognize and combat the problem of violence and harassment against politically active women. It first maps the global emergence of the concept of violence against women in politics. It then discusses some definitional issues and surveys the various forms this phenomenon takes around the world. It presents a short overview of emerging solutions and concludes that violence and harassment pose a serious threat to women’s political rights—and thus to democracy itself.
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Krook, M.L. (2019). New Horizons in Women’s Political Rights. In: Franceschet, S., Krook, M.L., Tan, N. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights. Gender and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59074-9_5
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