CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Tefera, Awotash Alemu |
|---|---|
| Title | Women Representation in Parliament, Comparative Analysis: Special Emphasis given to South Africa and Ethiopia |
| Summary | Purpose of this thesis This thesis aims at making a contribution to the improvement of the number of women representatives in parliament through analyzing the experience of South Africa in having high women representation in parliament and the recommendations and resources of international scholars, legal regimes and institutions as it relates to Ethiopia. Awareness about the low number of women participation in parliament helps change the attitude of the population towards voting for women representatives, therefore, this thesis may be used as a resource in relation to Ethiopian situation for creating awareness raising mechanism about the need and rationale to have women representatives in parliament. In addition, the existing gaps in the Electoral law and affirmative action will be analyzed so as to contribute to the process of increasing women representatives in Ethiopia. |
| Supervisor | Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/tefera_awotash.pdf |
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