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Title:

Women presidents and prime ministers in post-transition democracies / Veronica Montecinos, editor.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xix, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Women presidents.
Women prime ministers.
Women--Political activity.
Women--Political activity.
Women presidents.
Women prime ministers.

Other Authors:

Montecinos, Veronica, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Women at the top: leadership, institutions and the quality of democracy / Jane S. Jaquette -- Global trends in women’s executive leadership / Farida Jalalzai -- Gender and institutions in post-transition executives / Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, Catherine Reyes-Housholder -- Cultural explanations for men’s dominance of national leadership worldwide / Elizabeth A. Yates, Melanie M. Hughes -- Dilma Rousseff (2011–2016): a crisis of governance and consensus in Brazil / Fiona Macaulay -- Michelle Bachelet: engendering Chile’s democratization / Veronica Montecinos -- Luisa Dias Diogo: gender and political leadership in Mozambique / Frances B. Henderson -- Assessing Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s presidency: effects on substantive representation in Liberia / Melinda Adams -- Corazon Aquino: the reluctant first female president of the Philippines / Diana J. Mendoza, Maria Elissa Jayme Lao -- Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh: politics, personality and policies / Habibul Haque Khondker -- Iveta Radicova: the first female prime minister in Slovakia / Sharon L. Wolchik -- Challenges of a post-communist presidency: Vaira Vike-Freiberga and the leadership of Latvia / Daina S. Eglitis, Laura Ardava.

Series:

Palgrave studies in political leadership

ISBN:

1137482397
9781137482396

OCLC:

(OCoLC)964644618

LCCN:

2017933829

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)