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'Women in cities: Are these new spaces for the women's movement in Canada?' by , University of Ottawa, Canada

'Engendering the Legislative Agenda with and without Quotas: A Comparative Study of Argentina and Uruguay' by , Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Universidad de la Republica Uruguay

'Citizenship and municipal governance changes: Examining women in Toronto and London' by , University of Toronto, Canada

'Still a missed opportunity?: The competitiveness of women's candidacies for the upper house in Brazil: A comparative perpective' by , University of Sao Paolo, Brazil

'What are the effects of electoral gender quotas?: From studies of quota discourses to research on quota effects' by , University of Stockholm, Sweden

'Nations and democracies: Gender relations in Hungary and Japan' by , Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

'The political representation of women in Sweden: Women's struggle for institutional and discursive change ' by , University of Stockholm, Sweden

'Backlash in the US and Japan' by ,CUNY, New York, USA

'Direct versus Abeyance Activism: Women's Health Action in Canada and Australia' by , Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

'Out of sight, out of mind: The New Zealand women's movement in abeyance' by , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

'Equal Opportunity for Women or Gender Egalitarianism?' by , Umea University, Sweden

'All feminist politics is local: The struggle over ECP at the US State level' by , Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

'Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas: A New Global Women's Movement?' by , Washington University in St Louis, USA

'Is there a Europe effect? Women and elections to European and national parliaments, 1979-2004' by , Washington University in St Louis, USA

'Inclusiveness of new forms of local and regional political decision-making in terms of gender' by , Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

'Framing gender (in)equality in the European Union discourse' by , Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and the Free University, Brussels, Belgium

'Rethinking women's movements in changing contexts: Australia and South Korea' by , University of NSW and Immigrant Women's Speakout Association, Sydney, Australia

'The impact of devolution on women's citizenship in Scotland' by , University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

'Citizenship and Gender: Relations between Representative and Participative Democracy. The Chilean Case' by , Universite Libre De Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Consistency and inconsistency in gender equality policies' by , Free University, Brussels, Belgium and Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

'Opening the door: Women leaders and constitution building in Iraq and Afghanistan' by , Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA

'The "no-party" system and the women's movement in Uganda: Preliminary observations' by , Roanoke College, Salem, VA, USA

'A Rich Man's World?: The Impact of Market Populism on Equal Citizenship' by , Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

'Women and the failure to achieve the 30 per cent quota in the 2004-09 Indonesian Parliaments: The role of the electoral system' by , Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

'Liberty is a woman: Rethinking the concept of representation for the (female) body(s) politic in Japan and Canada' by , University of Ottawa, Canada

'Women and the Nobel Prize for Peace' by , Florida International University, USA

'The trajectory of the Japanese women's movement: From Uman Ribu (Women's Lib) to backlash, 1970 - 2000s' by , Kokugakuin University and Ochanomizu University, Japan

*'Democracy, Representation and Women: A Comparative Analysis' by , University of Ottawa, Canada

'When Women are Allies: Can We Make Women-Friendly Democracies out of Patriarchal Nation-States?' by , Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

'Is a minority truly powerless? Female legislators in Mauritius' by , Hanover College, Indiana, USA and University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius

*Winner of the Wilma Rule Award for best paper on gender and politics at the 2006 Congress.

International IDEA, Handbook on Women in Parliament new edn, 2006

Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble (eds), Representing Women in Parliament: A Comparative Study, Routledge, 2006.

Louise Chappell and Lisa Hill (eds), The Politics of Women's Interests: New Comparative and International Perspectives Routledge 2006.

Drude Dahlerup (ed.), Women, Quotas and Politics, Routledge, 2006.

Yvonne Galligan and Manon Tremblay (eds), Sharing Power: Women, Parliament, Democracy, Ashgate, 2005.

Joyce Outshoorn (ed), The Politics of Prostitution. Women's Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce Cambridge University Press 2004.