Constitution Building in Africa

Essay Competition of International IDEA

The Constitution Building Processes Programme of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) is pleased to announce its 2015 essay competition on constitution building in Africa.  

The award

iKNOW Politics is currently hosting an e-discussion on whether women make political parties more successful.

The ideology and internal organization of political parties affect how different societal needs, interests, and social demands are represented. Some parties have been great advocates of gender equality and promoting women in their candidate lists through either quotas or alternation rules. However, other political parties choose to ignore any regulations on achieving gender quality and pay the fines that come from doing so or go about in ways as to actively dismiss or neglect their female members.