Title Party institutionalization and women's representation in democratic Brazil / Kristin Wylie

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics Cambridge studies in gender and politics. Contents The puzzle of women's underrepresentation in Brazil -- Willing and able: party institutionalization, party leadership, and women's representation -- Brazil's quota law and the challenges of institutional change amidst weak and gendered institutions -- Overcoming gendered obstacles: voters, electoral rules, and parties -- Electoral rules, party support, and women's unexpected successes in elections to the Brazilian state -- Supermadres, Lutadoras, and technocrats: the bounded profiles of Brazil's female politicians -- Intersections between race and gender in Brazil's 2014 Chamber of Deputies elections -- Theoretical implications and comparative perspectives Summary "Brazil's quality of democracy remains limited by enduring obstacles including the weakness of parties and underrepresentation of marginalized groups. Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation theorizes the connections across those problems, explaining how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties interact to undermine descriptive representation in Brazil. This book draws on an original multilevel database of 27,653 legislative candidacies spanning six election cycles, over 100 interviews, and field observations from throughout Brazil. Wylie demonstrates that more inclusive participation in candidate-centered elections amidst raced-gendered structural inequities relies on institutionalized parties with the capacity to support women, and the will, heralded by party leadership, to do so. PIWR illustrates how women leaders in Brazil's more institutionalized parties enable white and Afro-descendant female aspirants to navigate the masculinized terrain of formal politics. It enhances our understanding of how parties mediate electoral rules, as well as institutional and party change in the context of weak but robustly gendered institutions"-- Provided by publisher "Brazil's quality of democracy remains limited by enduring obstacles including the weakness of parties and underrepresentation of marginalized groups. Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation theorizes the connections across those problems, explaining how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties interact to undermine descriptive representation in Brazil. This book draws on an original multilevel database of 27,653 legislative candidacies spanning six election cycles, over 100 interviews, and field observations from throughout Brazil"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Political parties -- Brazil Political participation -- Social aspects -- Brazil Women -- Political activity -- Brazil Women political candidates -- Brazil Representative government and representation -- Brazil POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. Political participation -- Social aspects Political parties Politics and government Representative government and representation Women -- Political activity Women political candidates SUBJECT Brazil -- Politics and government -- 2002- Subject Brazil Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108601795 1108601790 9781108612722 1108612725 1108453538 9781108453530

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