Women’s mobilisation for legislative political representation in Africa

Aili Mari Tripp

Review of African Political Economy, 2016, vol. 43, issue 149, 382-399

Abstract: This article argues that women’s movements advocating for political representation in African legislatures are a key factor in explaining how rates of female legislative representation have tripled between 1990 and 2015. Coalitional efforts to introduce electoral quotas challenge key claims in the literature on developing countries that suggest that culture, a lack of economic growth, and oil revenues serve as impediments to increases in women’s legislative representation. Case studies of Senegal, Mauritania and Algeria illustrate some of the problems with these arguments and show the significance of collective women’s mobilisation.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2016.1214117

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