Pathway detours to nowhere: women’s representation and the non-candidates

Autor: Márcio Cunha Carlomagno
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, Vol 20, Iss 2, Pp 366-389 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2176-6665
DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2015v20n2p366
Popis: The paper discusses how studies of recruitment and selection in political elites treat the female non-representation in parliament. It points to a specific gap in the Brazilian literature, which is what the parties do not produce, people who do not even try to enter in the competition. After a review of the state of the art of studies on the recruitment and the constraints for election, what leads to a female sub-representation, it argues how the theoretical proposition of the rule of anticipated reactions, from Mathew Crenson, can be fruitfully used in these studies to understand the rationality that leads to non-postulation of offices. Presents, finally, some roads to a research agenda that attempts to address the issue.
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