More Women Can Run - Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures

This book advances a new approach for understanding women's election to office, proposing a relationally embedded model of candidate emergence. Analyzing nationwide surveys of state legislators, the authors challenge assumptions of a single model of candidate emergence and the necessity for women to assimilate to men's pathways to office.

About the author

Susan J. Carroll is Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Kira Sanbonmatsu is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.

Summary

This book advances a new approach for understanding women's election to office, proposing a relationally embedded model of candidate emergence. Analyzing nationwide surveys of state legislators, the authors challenge assumptions of a single model of candidate emergence and the necessity for women to assimilate to men's pathways to office.

Additional text

More Women Can Run is a 'must read' for activists, practitioners and academics. Carroll and Sanbonmatsu document what we at EMILY's List have long known: when women support women, women can run and win. We all have a role to play through urging more women to run, backing their candidacies, and contributing financially to their campaigns. This work helps us understand how to build a true representative democracy that includes women.

Product details

• Authors: Susan J. Carroll, Susan J. (Professor of Political Science Carroll, Susan J. Sanbonmatsu Carroll, Carroll Susan J., Kira Sanbonmatsu, Sanbonmatsu Kira
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2013
• EAN: 9780199322428
• ISBN: 978-0-19-932242-8
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Political structure & processes, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Political structure and processes, Civil service and public sector, Civil Service & Public Sector