Buch
Monografie
Selecting women, electing women : political representation and candidate selection in Latin America
Verfasst von:
Hinojosa, Magda
Philadelphia:
Temple Univ. Press
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2012
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230 S.
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Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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Verfasst von: | Hinojosa, Magda |
Jahr: | 2012 |
Maße: | 24 cm |
ISBN: | 1439908478 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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"Selecting Women, Electing Women" examines how the rules for candidate selection affect women's political representation in Latin America. Focusing particularly on Chile and Mexico, Magda Hinojosa presents counterintuitive findings about the factors that keep women out of politics. She argues that primaries—which are regularly thought of as the most "democratic" process for choosing candidates—actually produce fewer female nominees than centralized and seemingly exclusionary candidate-selection procedures. Hinojosa astutely points out the role of candidate selection processes in explaining variation in women's representation that exists both across and within political parties. "Selecting Women, Electing Women" makes critical inroads to the study of gender and politics, candidate selection, and Latin American politics. Contents: Electing women: female political representation in Latin America -- Why selection matters: explaining women's representation in politics -- How selection matters: a theoretical framework -- The paradox of primaries: inclusive-decentralized selection -- Inclusive-centralized and exclusive-decentralized selection -- "Less democratic, but more effective": exclusive-centralized selection -- Selecting candidates closer to home: widows, wives, and daughters -- Altering candidate selection: the adoption and implementation of gender quotas -- Candidate selection and women's representation in Latin American politics -- Appendix one: Latin American women's representation by party -- Appendix two: interviews | |
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