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Explaining Women's Representation: The Role of Legislative Recruitment and Electoral Systems
(United Nations, 2005-12-12)
This paper focuses on two issues.1 First, we examine the principal steps involved in the process of recruiting individuals to countries’ legislatures. Second, we look at the effect of development, culture, and a country’s ...
World Charter for the Right to the City
(United Nations, 2005-09)
The new millennium dawned with half of the world’s population living in cities, and experts forecast that by 2050 the world’s urbanization rate will reach 65%. Cities are potentially territories with vast economic, ...