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Gender Matters: Female Policymakers' Influence in Industrialized Nations.(Review) (book review)

American Political Science Review,  March, 2001  by Duerst-Lahti, Georgia

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Gender Matters: Female Policymakers' Influence in Industrialized Nations. By Valerie R. O'Regan. Westport, CT: Praeger. 2000. 168p. $49.95.

Political globalization makes cross-national comparisons ever more important, especially those that reach widely and over time. Such policy analysis offers potentially practical applications for improved democratic representation. Valerie O'Regan provides such analytic reach in her study about the influence female policymakers have achieved in 22 industrialized nations. She considers the effects and effectiveness of female legislators and ...

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