Gender and political recruitment : theorizing institutional change / / Meryl Kenny.

"Political parties can make or break women's attempts to stand for political office, yet there have been surprisingly few systematic studies into the 'secret garden' of political recruitment. This book investigates this under-researched area, bringing together insights from femin...

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Superior document:Gender and politics
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Gender and politics (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Physical Description:xi, 215 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
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  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Gender, Institutions and Political Recruitment
  • 3. A Feminist Institutionalist Approach
  • 4. Political Recruitment in Post-Devolution Scotland
  • 5. Breaking With the Past? The Case of the Labour Party
  • 6. The Story of a Selection
  • 7. Applying a Feminist Institutionalist Lens
  • 8. Rethinking Political Recruitment
  • References
  • Notes.