Quebec Women and Legislative Representation - Softcover

Tremblay, Manon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774817690 ISBN 13: 9780774817691

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2010

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Quebec women have had the right to vote and run for office inprovincial and federal forums for at least six decades, yet theycontinue to occupy a minority of seats in Quebec's NationalAssembly and in Canada's House of Commons and Senate.

To explain this situation, Women and ParliamentaryRepresentation in Quebec examines women's engagement inpolitics from 1791 to the present. It begins by tracing the path thatled to women achieving the right to vote and run for office and thendraws on statistics and interviews with women senators and members ofParliament to complete an in-depth portrait of Quebec women'sunder-representation and its main causes – political parties andthe voting system. This innovative account not only documents thesignificant democratic deficit in Canada's parliamentary systems,it also outlines strategies to improve women's access tolegislative representation in Canada and elsewhere.

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Manon Tremblay is a professor of political scienceat the University of Ottawa. Widely published on issues of Canadian andQuebec politics and women and politics, she is editor, most recently,of Women and Legislative Representation: Electoral Systems,Political Parties, and Sex Quotas. Käthe Roth hasbeen a literary translator, working mainly in historical non-fiction,for more than twenty years. She lives and works in Saint-Lazare,Quebec.

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Manon Tremblay examines Quebec women's political engagements from 1791 to the present. She traces the path that led to women obtaining the rights to vote and run for office and then draws on statistics and interviews with female politicians to paint an indepth portrait of women's underrepresentation and its main causes. Her innovative account not only documents the significant democratic deficit in Canada's parliamentary systems, it also outlines strategies to improve women's access to legislative representation in Canada and elsewhere.

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Manon Tremblay examines Quebec women's political engagements from 1791 to the present. She traces the path that led to women obtaining the rights to vote and run for office and then draws on statistics and interviews with female politicians to paint an indepth portrait of women's underrepresentation and its main causes. Her innovative account not only documents the significant democratic deficit in Canada's parliamentary systems, it also outlines strategies to improve women's access to legislative representation in Canada and elsewhere.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774817690
• ISBN 13: 9780774817691
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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