The influence of voting system on electoral participation of women in Poland

• Authors: Małgorzata Niewiadomska-Cudak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the research, there was taken an attempt to analyze to which extent the electoral system, currently functioning in Poland, influences electoral participation of women. In the elaboration electoral participation, as a form of political activity will concern realization of suffrage right. The electoral system as a category of political studies analysis is the one of the utmost importance. The matter of scientific understanding of the system concentrates an attention of researchers for a while. The analysis of contemporary voting systems became one of the basic tasks of empirical political studies. It is worth look closer at an mechanism, which became a tool for enhancing a participation of women in political life

Keywords

EN

Electoral system; electoral participation; elections; women; parliment

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Intercultural Management
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 91-100

Dates

published

2013-06-01

online

2014-03-27

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Niewiadomska-Cudak

• Społeczna Akademia Nauk

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/joim-2013-0012