%0 Journal Article
%T "52% of the electorate, 11% of parliament": cultural factors and feminine political representation in Uruguay
%A P¨¦rez
%A Ver¨®nica
%J Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Pol¨ªtica
%D 2006
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X on the assumption that culture matters, this paper explores the behavior of some cultural hypotheses, at the supply and demand levels, as explanations of women under-representation in public office, trying to point out the methodological precautions needed when gender analyses are carried out. the article lies on a theoretical perspective which claims the main causes of the low feminine presence in politics are related to structural factors for which there would be, however, political "solutions".
%K culture
%K politics
%K women.
%U http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0797-97892006000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en