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Public Election Funding, Competition, And Candidate Gender, Timothy Werner, Kenneth R. Mayer Oct 2007

Public Election Funding, Competition, And Candidate Gender, Timothy Werner, Kenneth R. Mayer

Kenneth R Mayer

We analyze the effects of gender and competition on the decision to accept or decline public election funds, in Maine and Arizona since 2000.


What Is This Gender Talk All About After All? Gender, Power And Politics In Cotemporary Nigeria, Shola J. Omotola Jan 2007

What Is This Gender Talk All About After All? Gender, Power And Politics In Cotemporary Nigeria, Shola J. Omotola

Shola J. Omotola Mr

Gender discourse is very influential everywhere, calling to attention the unwarranted discrepancy between the locations of men and women in the state and society in almost every facet of life. It places particular emphasis on the oppression and marginalisation of women at all levels. The feminist movements have for years continued to advocate for gender balance especially through affirmative action. Yet, only marginal progress has been made. Drawing insights from contemporary Nigeria, this paper argues that if the gender discourse will ever be productive, it would have to be reoriented and situated within the framework of power politics.