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Promoting Women's Political Participation: A MONITORING GUIDE
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This Monitoring Guide was developed in accordance with the third objective, with the goal of outlining international best practices and elaborating a set of criteria for how the ACWF and other actors might monitor developments in women’s political participation in China.
After providing a short introduction to the current state of women’s political participation in China, the Guide presents a four-stage model of political recruitment (eligible --> aspirant --> candidate --> elected) that identifies three key transitions: from citizens who are eligible to run to those who aspire to run for political office (the ‘supply’ of potential candidates); from citizens who aspire to those who are nominated to run for political office (the ‘demand’ from candidate selectors); and from citizens who are nominated to those who are elected (the ‘demand’ from voters on election day)....
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