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Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2004

Valerie Sperling
Valerie Sperling
Affiliation:
Clark University
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Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe. Edited by Richard E. Matland and Kathleen A. Montgomery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 400p. $85.00 cloth, $35.00 paper.

It was something of a truism that within the political institutions of the Soviet bloc states, women and power were found in inverse proportion to each other. While women occupied roughly 30% of the seats within the faux-parliamentary bodies of the communist region, true power was never located in those institutions. Instead, political power was found at the Communist Party's zenith, where women were seen rarely, if at all.

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BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2004 , pp. 878 - 879
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© 2004 American Political Science Association

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