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All Roads Lead to Power : The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women /

"We are accustomed to hearing about a gender gap in politics. The low representation of women in elected office is well-documented and typically attributed to institutional barriers, discrimination, and differences in political ambition due to socialized gender norms. The problem with this narr...

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Auteur principal: Sidorsky, Kaitlin N. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Reconceptualizing women and public service
  • The men and women in elected and appointed office at the state level
  • You should be appointed : political recruitment for state-level appointed officials
  • Why hold public office? : appointed officials' motivations to hold public office
  • Where do I go from here? : the political ambitions of appointed officeholders
  • Considering the other pathway : appointed officials' interest in elected office
  • A different perspective : recruitment, motivations, and ambitions of state elected officials
  • How to be the nonpolitical public servant
  • Appendices: State political pathways surveys ; Appointed and elected official interview transcripts ; Coding of variables ; Supplemental table for chapter 5.