Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

Global Database of Quotas for Women

A joint project of
International IDEA and Stockholm University

Stockholm University

North America and the Caribbean

General Sources North America and the Caribbean | Canada | Dominican Republic | Trinidad and Tobago

General Sources North America and the Caribbean

Bacchi, Carol Lee. 1996. Politics of Affirmative Actions. Women, Equality and Category Politics. London: Sage.

Inter-Parliamentary Union, www.ipu.org

Krook, M.L. et al 2006. ’Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand: Gender Quotas in the Context of Citizenship Models’, in Dahlerup, D. (ed.) Women, Quotas and Politics, London/New York: Routledge, pp. 194-221.

Socialist International Women. 2002. ‘The Quota System.’ http://www.socintwomen.org.uk/QUOTA/QUOTAEng1.html.

Canada

Canadian Parliament website, http://www.parl.gc.ca/

Chappell, L.A. 2002. Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in
Australia and Canada, Toronto: UBC Press.
Library of Parliament (2004) ‘Women Candidates in General Elections – 1921 to Date’. http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/House/asp/WomenElect.asp?lang_E&source_hoc

Dahl, Jens. 1997. ‘Gender Parity in Nunavut?’, Indigenous Affairs. no. 3-4. http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/SEEJ/Nunavut/gender.html

Gidengil, Elisabeth. 1996. ‘Gender and attitudes towards quotas for women candidates in Canada’, Women and Politics. 16, no. 4. pp. 21-44.

Inter-Parliamentary Union. 1997a. Men and Women in Politics: Democracy Still in the Making, A World Comparative Study. Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Inter-Parliamentary Union. 1999b. Politics: Women's Insight. Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Karam, Azza M. 1998. Beijing +5: Women's Political Participation: Review of Strategies and Trends. Background Paper No. 1. New York: United Nations.

Matland, R.E. and Studlar, D.T. 1996. ‘The Contagion of Women Candidates in Single-Member Districts and Proportional representation Electoral Systems: Canada and Norway’, The Journal of Politics, 58, 3: 707–33.

Nunavut Implementation Commission. 1995. NIC's proposal for equal representation by men and women in the Nunavut Legislative Assembly. Iqaluit: Iqualuit NU.

Praud, Jocelyne. 1998. ’La seconde vague féministe et la féminisation du Parti socialiste français et du Parti québécois’, Politique et sociétés. 17, no. 1-2. pp. 71-90.

Dominican Republic

Htun, Mala N. 1998. Women's Political Participation, Representation and Leadership in Latin America. Issue Brief, Women's Leadership Conference of the Americas.

Htun, Mala N. 2002. Women in Political Power in Latin America. Manuscript.

Htun, Mala N. and Mark P. Jones. 2002. ‘Engendering the Right to Participate in Decision-Making: Electoral Quotas and Women's Leadership in Latin America’, in Nikki Craske and Maxine Molyneux(eds) Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America. New York: Palgrave. pp. 32-56

Jimenez Polanco, Jacqueline. 2001. ‘La représentation politique des femmes en Amérique Latine: Une analyse comparée’ (Women's political representation in Latin America: a comparative analysis). Bérengère Marques-Pereira and Patricio Nolasco (eds)  La représentation politique des femmes en Amérique Latine (Women's political representation in Latin America). Brussels: L'Harmattan. pp. 27-81.

Peschard, Jacqueline. 2002. The quota system in Latin America: General review. Manuscript.

Women's Leadership Conference of the Americas. 2001. Women and Power in the Americas: A Report Card. Washington: Women's Leadership Conference of the Americas.

Trinidad and Tobago

Gibbings, Wesley. 2000. ‘Trinidad & Tobago: Activists Want More Female Candidates’, Interpress Service, July 17.

Trinidad and Tobago Parliament website, http://www.ttparliament.org/