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Since the 1990s, the majority of Latin American countries have implemented gender quota legislation in order to raise the proportion of women participating in political decision-making. This Brief analyses the impact these laws have had on the number of women in Latin American parliaments, as well as the conditions that have made certain quota laws more successful than others. Latin American experience of gender quotas in legislative elections has many lessons to offer since this region ranks among the most
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- ELLA Programme
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- EN