Melanie M. Hughes

TL;DR: This paper focused on women's formal political participation and representation, and discussed both traditional explanations for women's political participation, such as supply of women and the demand for women, and newer explanations such as the role of international actors and gender quotas.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors ask how women's political representation, once considered unacceptable by politicians and their publics, is now actively encouraged by powerful international actors, and they ask how th...

TL;DR: The authors investigated how electoral systems, national-level gender quotas, and growth of democracy impact country-level trajectories of women's legislative representation and found that national quotas do affect women's political presence, but at a lower level than legislated by law.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of gender and minority quotas on minority women's representation in national legislatures are analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling. And they find that policies designed to promote the political representation of women and minority groups interact to produce diverse but predictable outcomes for minority women.

TL;DR: A brief overview of women's participation in politics can be found in this paper, where the authors present a survey of the history of women in politics and their role in the political process.