| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Contents |
Electing women: female political representation in Latin America -- Why selection matters: explaining women's representation in politics -- How selection matters: a theoretical framework -- The paradox of primaries: inclusive-decentralized selection -- Inclusive-centralized and exclusive-decentralized selection -- "Less democratic, but more effective": exclusive-centralized selection -- Selecting candidates closer to home: widows, wives, and daughters -- Altering candidate selection: the adoption and implementation of gender quotas -- Candidate selection and women's representation in Latin American politics -- Appendix one: Latin American women's representation by party -- Appendix two: interviews |
| Summary |
Selecting Women, Electing Women is a groundbreaking book that examines how the rules for candidate selection affect women's political representation in Latin America. Focusing particularly on Chile and Mexico, Magda Hinojosa presents counterintuitive assumptions about factors that promote the election of women. She argues that primaries- which are regularly thought of as the most democratic process for choosing candidates- actually produce fewer female nominees than centralized and seemingly exclusionary candidate selection procedures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Political activity -- Latin America
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Women political candidates -- Latin America
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Women and democracy -- Latin America
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Women and democracy
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Women -- Political activity
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Women political candidates
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Latin America
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Latijns-Amerika.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781439908495 |
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1439908494 |
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1439908478 |
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9781439908471 |
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1439908486 |
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9781439908488 |
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