Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal

This article investigates the role of key individual-level factors, namely expertise, seniority and preferences in women’s assignments to legislative committees. It focuses on Portugal and draws on biographical data on MPs in five elections until 2009 and interviews with 20 legislators in 2014. The...

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Main Author: Espírito-Santo, Ana (author)
Other Authors: Sanches, Edalina (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/39682
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/39682