The Inclusion of Excluded Majorities in South Asian Parliaments: Women, Youth, and the Working Class

• Main Author: JOSHI, Devin K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: parliament; representation; South Asia; women; working class; youth; Asian Studies; Political Science; Politics and Social Change
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1930
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article provides a new perspective on parliamentary representation in South Asia, focusing on the collective under-representation of population majorities based on the macro-demographic categories of age, class, and gender. Situating this analysis within debates on descriptive representation, i...