Democratic Paradoxes: Women's Rights and Democratization in Kuwait
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Emily Regan Wills
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The 1999 decree by Kuwait's emir granting women electoral rights, and its subsequent parliamentary rejection, is more than just an instance of women's oppression in action. It also demonstrates a potential paradox between two axes of democratization: libe