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Women Cabinet Ministers in West Africa: Insights from The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone

Across the world cabinet ministers are significant political players and yet they are grossly under researched, in part because of a dearth of consistent and comparable data.

Gretchen Bauer Gretchen Bauer

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Eternal mothers, whores or witches: The oddities of being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe

Ncube, Gibson. 2020. Eternal mothers, whores or witches: The oddities of being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe. Agenda, 1–9. https://doi.org...

Gibson Ncube Gibson Ncube

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Interrogating Women’s Pathways into and Engagement with Political Power in Africa: A Comparative Study of Uganda and South Africa

Over the past few decades the presence of women in government also called descriptive representation has increased significantly because of a greater acceptance of quotas or reserve seats for women.

Josephine Ahikire Josephine Ahikire

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Democracy at the Crossroads? Normative, performance and legitimacy changes in contemporary democracies

Current crises can hardly be reduced to fiscal or economic phenomena; they seem to be much deeper, including the crisis of democracy per se.

Radoslaw Markowski Radoslaw Markowski
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