Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on May 22, 2007
Parliamentary Affairs 2007 60(3):424-425; doi:10.1093/pa/gsm015
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Introduction: Gender, Citizenship and Participation: Opportunities and Obstacles in the Twenty-first Century Politics
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THIS special half issue of Parliamentary Affairs brings together several pertinent themes that have been the source of debateacademic and broaderin recent years. We hear much about the crisis of participation in which traditional forms of political activity attract the participation of ever-decreasing numbers, although the extent to which this is a natural development of social change or the result of political bankruptcy remains to be decided. While, for