By Kathleen A. Montgomery, Richard E. Matland, Kathleen Montgomery
This quantity examines women's political illustration in japanese Europe and specifically the way that illustration has developed in the 10 years because the fall of the Berlin Wall. as well as laying off gentle at the democratization of japanese Europe, the amount goals to supply an invaluable try for a variety of theories of illustration.
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Slovakia was still a part of the Czechoslovak Federation until 1993. •:• KATHLEEN A. MONTGOMERY 9 The real question, then, is what? What electoral institutions work to promote equality for women as democracy consolidates in the post-communist countries? Do our predictions for the woman-friendliness of particular electoral rules hold in the novel context of post-communist democracy? What role (if any) are non-governmental organizations having on the demand for women in office and the ability of women to penetrate male-dominated party and legislative hierarchies?
The costs of responding to a challenge from another party on the issue RECRUITMENT THEORIES AND EASTERN EUROPE •> 28 of women's representation are lower in PR than in majoritarian systems, and the gains may be greater. Because PR systems give major party leaders several slots from which they might find room to nominate a woman, as opposed to only one under majoritarian rules, the party has an easier time finding room for female candidates. Furthermore, in an SMD system, when a party that is dominant in an individual district is challenged on the issue of candidate diversity, it can often safely ignore such a threat, because it is very unlikely to lose the seat.
Extensive welfare programs allowed women to work, but female labour was concentrated in lower pay and lower prestige sectors; and women were still expected to perform the bulk of household and childrearing duties. Political participation was mandatory and quotas ensured that there would be female faces in parliament; but the legislatures themselves served as rubber stamps for decisions made in the top echelons of party and state power, places where women were notably absent. Communism usurped the language of feminist emancipation, but in praxis women were marginalized across economic, political, and social spheres (Scott 1973, 1976; Heitlinger 1979; Wolchik 1981; Wolchik and Meyer 1985).
