This article applies modern Bayesian roll call analysis to estimate legislators' support for minority-favored policies, and to determine the likely impact of competing redistricting plans on the ...

The increase in the number of women elected to public office is one of the most visible and significant changes in U.S. politics over the past fifty years. This change has been particularly noticeable ...

An info graphic by the UN Women on UN Public service Day joyously announced that the number of women at the civil service academy, Pakistan has increased from 10 percent in 1984 to 40 percent in 2017.

We need to analyse two issues that divide political scientists to provide an answer. i) Is political representation ?substantive? or ?descriptive? or both ? . Put crudely in the USA,the debate is ...

The paper uses the concept of intersectionality to examine the experiences of politicians with migrant backgrounds in Germany. The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of persons ...

Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia. As of ...

New Delhi, July 8 There is a compelling need for substantive representation of women on the boards of companies rather than a token representation through family members, Women and Child Development ...

The Committee on Judicial Ethics responds to written inquiries from New York state’s approximately 3,400 judges, who serve both full- and part-time. The committee’s opinions interpret the Rules ...

Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia. This ...