Title Gender, informal institutions and political recruitment : explaining male dominance in parliamentary representation / Elin Bjarnegård, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : illustrations Series Gender and politics Gender and politics (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) Contents Upholding Male Parliamentary Dominance -- Revisiting Patterns Of Gendered Representation -- Structure Of The Book -- Studying Men And Masculinities In Politics -- Constructing Homosocial Capital -- Clientelism And Unpredictability -- Clientelism As A Likely Producer Of Homosocial Capital -- Clientelism And Male Dominance -- Institutional Enablers Of Clientelism -- Combining Methods -- The Quantitative Approach -- The Qualitative Approach -- The Representation Of Men Worldwide -- Capturing Clientelism : Measuring The Immeasurable? -- The Models, Data And Operationalizations -- Clientelism And Male Parliamentary Dominance -- Results And Implications Of The Quantitative Study -- Situating The Thai Case -- The Thai Gender Paradox -- Democratic Instability In Thailand -- Informal Influence -- Assessing The Clientelist Political Logic -- The Thai Case: Clientelism And Male Dominance -- Candidate Selection In Thai Political Parties -- The Importance Of Candidate Selection -- The Rules Of The Game -- Who Decides? -- Summarizing Thai Candidate Selection -- Clientelist Networks And Homosocial Capital -- The Role And Function Of Clientelist Networks -- Network Maintenance And Homosocial Capital -- Theorizing Homosocial Capital -- The Gendered Consequences Of Clientelist Competition -- The Added Value Of Homosocial Capital -- Concluding Remarks -- A Summary Of The Findings -- The Contributions Of The Book Summary Parliaments around the world are still overwhelmingly populated by men, yet studies of male dominance are much rarer than are studies of female under-representation. In this book, men in politics are the subjects of a gendered analysis. How do men manage to hold on to positions of power despite societal trends in the opposite direction? And why do men seek to cooperate mainly with other men? Elin Bjarneḡrd studies how male networks are maintained and expanded and seeks to improve our understanding of the rationale underlying male dominance in politics. The findings build on results both from statistical analyses of parliamentary composition worldwide and from extensive field work in Thailand. A new concept, homosocial capital, is coined and developed to help us understand the persistence of male political dominance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index Notes Print version record Subject Representative government and representation -- Case studies Legislative bodies -- Case studies Legislators -- Case studies Men -- Political activity -- Case studies Men -- Psychology -- Case studies Politics & government. Gender studies: men. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Men's Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch. Politics and Government. Legislative bodies Legislators Men -- Political activity Men -- Psychology Representative government and representation Politics & government -- United States of America, USA. Gender studies: men & boys -- United States of America, USA. Politics and Government. Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137296740 1137296747

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