Brian Turnbull

Broschiertes Buch

Women Who Only Serve Chai

Gender Quotas, Reservations and Proxies in India

Beschreibung

This book investigates the experiences of women city councilors in India. It follows the careers of women in Jaipur, Rajasthan, who were brought into public office through a gender quota instituted over two decades ago.

Autor

Brian Turnbull is a faculty member at the University of South Florida in the Department of Sociology, USA, with interdisciplinary interests in democratic representation, gender and politics, South Asian politics, and qualitative methodology. He has primarily conducted research on the use of gender quotas to improve representational equality in the global South, but he has also published on authoritarian consolidation and qualitative methodologies in the field. He teaches comparative politics and coordinates student internships for the department. He enjoys preparing students for their careers and post-university work by encouraging the development of communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills. He received his PhD in political science with focuses in comparative politics and international relations from the University of Kansas, USA. Prior, he received his MA in security studies from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C, USA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 269g
• ISBN-13: 9781032271231
• ISBN-10: 103227123X
• Artikelnr.: 69929178