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Gender and Right-Wing Populism: Analysing the Role of Women at the ministerial level

Acta Politologica
Volume 15 (2023): Issue 1 (January 2023)
By: Lea Radke and  Gila Rolofs  
Open Access
|Jan 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/1803-8220-37_2021 | Journal eISSN: 1803-8220 | Journal ISSN: 1804-1302
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Published on: Jan 30, 2023
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Keywords:
Right-wing populism,
Political representation of women,
Gender politics,
Women in the executive,
Poland,
Hungary
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