Has liberalism failed women? : assuring equal representation in Europe and the United States / Jytte Klausen and Charles S. Maier, editions.

The descriptive political representation of gender : an anti-essentialist argument / Jane Mansbridge -- The politics of parity : can legal intervention neutralize the gender divide? / Claus Offe -- The French parity movement / Fran?coise Gaspard -- Constitutionalizing equal access : high hopes, dashed hopes? / Isabelle Giraud and Jane Jenson -- Breaking the barriers : positive discrimination policies for women / Pippa Norris -- Women and the third way : collaboration and conflict / Anna Coote -- Changing the rules of the game : the role of law and the effects of party reforms on gender parity in Germany / Christiane Lemke --From equal pay to parity democracy : the rocky ride of women's policy in the European Union / Agn?es Hubert -- Quotas, parity, and the discursive dangers of difference / Hege Skjeie -- Constitutional reform and gender mandates / Jutta Limbach -- The distinctive barriers to gender equality / Rogers M. Smith -- Representation and the electoral interests of women and African Americans : a co