Title Gender and political recruitment : theorizing institutional change / Meryl Kenny

Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Gender and politics Gender and politics. Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender, Institutions and Political Recruitment -- 3. A Feminist Institutionalist Approach -- 4. Political Recruitment in Post-Devolution Scotland -- 5. Breaking With the Past? The Case of the Labour Party -- 6. The Story of a Selection -- 7. Applying a Feminist Institutionalist Lens -- 8. Rethinking Political Recruitment 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Publisher supplied information; title not viewed Subject Women political candidates -- Scotland -- Case studies Women -- Political activity -- Scotland -- Case studies Political parties. Sex role -- Political aspects Central government. Political science & theory. Comparative politics. Political parties. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. Politics and Government. Political parties Sex role -- Political aspects Women -- Political activity Women political candidates Central -- national -- federal government -- United States of America, USA. Political science & theory -- United States of America, USA. Comparative politics -- United States of America, USA. Political parties -- United States of America, USA. Politics and Government. Scotland Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137271945 1137271949 1299643108 9781299643109

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