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RESEARCH PROPOSAL I will adopt a linear model for this research design. It will take the form of a progression of linear steps that are simple to follow. The first of these steps is to define the theory I will be investigating and develop my hypothesis. Introduction The exclusion of women from politics, in particular political office, can be charted back to as early as 350BC when Aristotle, in his 'Politics' treatise, classed women, children and slaves as external to his definition of a citizen. Despite the legacy of the suffragette movement of the early 20th century, and the contemporary claims of sexual equality, politics remains, essentially, a political domain. From initial observations of party lists and parliamentary data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union, it transpired that, despite obviously making up 50% of any population, women's actual representation in parliaments fell to as low as 5% (Appendix 1). Although there are clearly some ideological explanations...

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