Pathways to Power: The Role of Political Parties in Women’s National Political Representation  

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Kunovich, Sheri ; Paxton, Pamela

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: AJS: American Journal of Sociology vol. 111 no. 02 (Sep. 2005), page 505-552.
Topik: Elected Officials; Women in Politics; Female Elites; Political Parties; National Legislatures; Female Candidates;
Fulltext: AJS Vol.111 No.2 Sep 2005 p.505-552_win.pdf (213.13KB)

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The authors extend previous research on women’s participation in politics by examining the role of female elites in political parties in selecting and supporting women as political candidates. They hypothesize that political parties, in their role as gatekeepers, mediate the relationship between country-level factors, such as women’s participation in the labor force, and political outcomes for women. The article focuses on three outcomes for women: the percentage of female political party leaders, the percentage of female candidates in a country, and the percentage of women elected. New cross-national measures of women’s inclusion in political parties are developed and analyzed in a cross-national, path-analytic model of women in politics to find that (1) women’s position in party elites translates into gains for women as candidates only under proportional representation systems, (2) women’s position in party elites increases the likelihood that female candidates will be elected only in nonproportional representation systems, and (3) parties may be overly sensitive to the perceived liability of women as candidates, when in fact, women have success as candidates across all regions of the world.

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