Women candidates and party nomination trends in India: evidence from the 2009 general election

Spary, Carole

doi:10.1080/14662043.2013.867691

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Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election (2020)
Journal Article
Spary, C. (2020). Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election. Contemporary South Asia, 28(2), 223-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2020.1765987

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Gender quota campaigns to increase women’s parliamentary presence in India have been ongoing for more than twenty years. Meanwhile, each general election results in the slow grow... Read More about Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election.

Gender, development, and the state in India (2019)
Book
Spary, C. (2019). Gender, development, and the state in India. Routledge

This book explores the relationship between the state, development policy, and gender (in)equality in India. It discusses the formation of state policy on gender and development in India in the post-1990 period through three key organising concepts o... Read More about Gender, development, and the state in India.

Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament (2019)
Book
Rai, S. M., & Spary, C. (2019). Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Women candidates and party nomination trends in India: evidence from the 2009 general election (2014)
Journal Article
Spary, C. (in press). Women candidates and party nomination trends in India: evidence from the 2009 general election. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 52(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2013.867691

More women MPs than ever before were elected to the lower house of the national parliament of India in the 2009 General Election. Yet, the increase in women’s presence in the Lok Sabha cannot necessarily be attributed to the increased willingness of... Read More about Women candidates and party nomination trends in India: evidence from the 2009 general election.