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The position of women is of little consequence to those who deny the significance of the role of women in the political process or in the composition of parliaments. The underlying assumptions of this chapter accept many of the arguments on women’s representation noted in Chapter 2, namely that social representation does matter. Unfortunately we cannot address all facets of those arguments. Our focus is on the numbers, nature, and characteristics of women candidates and deputies. We thus ignore the issue of women’s behaviour as deputies, and in particular the important question of whether gender matters to decision-making.1 Instead we concentrate on aspects of the input side of the electoral process.
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Millard, F. (2004). The Representation of Women. In: Elections, Parties and Representation in Post-Communist Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000865_8
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