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It takes a candidate : why women don't run for office /
Serving as the first systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition, and based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Study, a national survey conducted on almost 3,800 potential candidates, this looks at why women are less likely than men to d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Electoral politics : still a man's world?
- Representation, equality, and the study of gender in electoral politics
- Traditional gender socialization in the context of U.S. politics : the central argument and its implications
- Traditional family role orientations
- Masculinized ethos
- Gendered psyche
- Organization of the book
- 2. Explaining women's emergence in the political arena
- Women and elective politics : the numbers
- Existing explanations for women's underrepresentation
- Societal rejection and cultural evolution : the discrimination explanation
- Institutional inertia : the incumbency explanation
- The candidate eligibility pool : the pipeline explanation
- The missing piece : developing a theory of gender and political ambition
- The citizen political ambition study
- 3. The gender gap in political ambition
- Very much the same : gender, political participation, and political interest
- Very much different : gender and political ambition
- Stage one : considering a candidacy
- Stage two : deciding to enter the first race
- The "winnowing effect"
- The gender gap in elective office preferences
- Conclusion
- 4. Barefoot, pregnant, and holding a law degree : family dynamics and running for office
- Raised to be a candidate?
- Eligible candidates' family structure and roles
- Wife, mother, and candidate? : family roles as impediments to political ambition
- Are times changing? : generational differences in political ambition
- Conclusion
- 5. Gender, party, and political recruitment
- Eligible candidates' political attitudes and partisanship
- Who gets asked to run for office?
- Political recruitment and considering a candidacy
- Conclusion
- 6. "I'm just not qualified" : gendered self-perceptions of candidate viability
- The impact of self-perceived qualifications on political ambition
- Explanations for the gender gap in self-perceived qualifications
- The sexist environment
- Gender differences in defining political qualifications
- Different yardsticks for gauging political qualifications
- Conclusion
- 7. Taking the plunge : deciding to run for office
- Why would anyone run for office? : negative perceptions of the electoral environment and campaign process
- Gender and the decision to enter a race
- A side note on political culture and "structural" factors
- Prospective interest in running for office
- Conclusion
- 8. Gender and the future of electoral politics
- Summarizing the findings and forecasting women's representation
- Recasting the study of gender and elections
- Appendix A. The citizen political ambition study sample design and data collection
- Appendix B. The survey
- Appendix C. The interview questionnaire
- Appendix D. Variable coding.