Author's Keywords: Women in Politics, Electoral System, Women's Movements, Political Parties, Democratization, Gender Quotas, South Korea, South Africa,	Convention All Academic Convention can solve the abstract management needs for any association's annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
Association: Name: WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION URL: http://www.csus.edu/ORG/WPSA/
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Wade, Magic. "Barriers to Women''s Political Representation - South Korea in Comparative Context: Mistaken Assumptions, Misguided Strategies, Political Culture and Institutional Design" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, La Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, Mar 08, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p176692_index.html>

Wade, M. M. , 2007-03-08 "Barriers to Women''s Political Representation - South Korea in Comparative Context: Mistaken Assumptions, Misguided Strategies, Political Culture and Institutional Design" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, La Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p176692_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: According to Dahlerup (2006), the experience of women in politics can be understood through an examination of structural/cultural factors such as secularization, the presence of social democratic parties, the development of an extended welfare state, women�s entrance into the labor market, and the electoral system. Additionally, strategic factors, including the various strategies of political parties and women�s organizations, are an area of great interest for researchers. It is my argument that, as the South African and South Korean cases demonstrate, democratization creates a political opening which women�s movements must take advantage of if they want to institutionalize mechanisms that will effectively promote (and require) the presence of women as policy-makers. It is under the category of �strategic factors� employed by women�s organizations that I demonstrate the core of the divergence in outcomes across the South African and South Korean cases. Further, I include an exploration of social and cultural factors unique to each case which may be seen affecting women�s movements� abilities to employ the necessary strategies to increase the political representation of women. Such factors include patriarchal traditions in both countries, the Confucian legacy in Korea, the South African women�s resistance to apartheid, as well as each states approach to modernization during the democratic consolidation phase. Finally, I offer a discussion of the inherent structural differences in the two political systems to demonstrate the importance of institutions, such as the electoral system, political parties, and the adoption of gender quotas, for increasing women�s opportunities to enter into politics. The idea that institutions can be designed with this goal in mind should be particularly salient in the transition phase, as the potential to construct gender-conscious constitutions and electoral rules is often greater at the inception of democracy than after male-dominated �politics as usual� have become entrenched yet again.

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