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Monday, May 07, 2007
Race and Gender in American State Legislatures
Wendy Smooth, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, Ohio State University, speaker; commentator Kerry Haynie, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social...
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Monday, May 07, 2007
New Insights in Preventing Child Marriage: A Global Analysis of Factors and Programs
New research from ICRW found that programs seeking to prevent child marriage should target and tailor efforts to young girls approaching the "tipping point" age — the age at which child marriage prevalence in a country starts to increase markedly,...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007
Report / White Paper
Presiding Officers: Speakers and Presidents of Legislatures
This paper examines the role of presiding officers in three general models of legislatures: the Westminster Model, the U.S. Congress Model, and the French Bureau Model. It elaborates on the characteristics of each model and outlines the distinct...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007
Report / White Paper
The Role and Practice of Legislative Hearings in Democracies: Examples from Germany and the United States
This paper was written for a series of seminars on public legislative hearings held in Beijing and Shanghai, China. The purpose of the paper is to provide Chinese participants with first-hand accounts of the context and functioning of public...
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Interviews
Madeleine K. Albright
"My advice to women is to have a sense of confidence that what you have to offer is worthwhile. You can make a difference. You have to make a difference. Then, having made up your mind that you have been put on this earth to make a difference, you...
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