Gender and political recruitment : theorizing institutional change

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Gender and political recruitment : theorizing institutional change

Title remainder

theorizing institutional change

Statement of responsibility

Meryl Kenny

Creator

• Kenny, Meryl

Subject

• Feminism -- Political aspects
• Women -- Political activity
• Women -- Political activity -- Scotland -- Case studies
• Women political candidates -- Recruiting
• Women political candidates -- Recruiting -- Scotland -- Case studies
• Case studies

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

"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 feminist and new institutional theory to explore and understand the gendered dynamics of institutional innovation and change in candidate selection and recruitment. Drawing on an original empirical case study of candidate selection in post-devolution Scotland, Gender and Political Recruitment highlights the complex and gendered dynamics of institutional design, continuity and change in the political recruitment process and illustrates the difficulties of reforming recruitment in the face of powerful institutional and gendered legacies"--

Member of

• Gender and politics (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Gender and politics