Women and Legislative Representation

PART I: MAJOITARIAN SYSTEMS Uganda: Reserved Seats for Women MPs: Affirmative Action for the National Women's Movement or the National Resistance Movement; G.Bauer United Kingdom: The Mother of All Parliaments: Westminster's Male Face; S.Childs, R.Campbell & J.Lovenduski United States of America: Feminist Society, Paternalist Politics: How the Electoral System Affects Women's Representation in the United States Congress; D.T.Studlar Afghanistan: From Misogynist Theocracy to Gender-Inclusive Democracy?; A.Fleschenberg France: The Single Member District System: The Hidden Bonus for Notables; M.Sineau Australia: Early Promise Unfulfilled: The Electoral Representation of Women in Australia; I.McAllister PART II: PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION South Africa: Challenging Traditional Thinking on Electoral Systems; H.E.Britton Spain: Women in Parliament: The Effectiveness of Quotas; C.Valiente Belgium: The Collateral Damage of Electoral System Design; P.Meier Ireland: STV: A Gender-Proportional System?; Y.Galligan Peru: Success Under Open List PR: The Election of Women to the Congress; G.Schmidt PART III: MIXED-MEMBER SYSTEMS Mexico: Más Mujeres? Mexico's Mixed-Member Electoral System; M.Minojosa New Zealand: Gendering Parliamentary Representation: A Mixed System Producing Mixed Results; J.Curtin Hungary: The Impact of Early Party Consolidation on Female Representation and the Mixed Electoral System; G.Ilonszk Japan: Societal, Electoral, and Party Explanations for the Low Representation of Women in the House of Representatives; R.Christensen Conclusion