Selecting women, electing women : political representation and candidate selection in Latin America /
Selecting Women, Electing Women is a groundbreaking book that 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 assumptions about factors that promote the e...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.