Kristin N. Wylie (Virginia James Madison University)

Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation in Democratic Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

Explains how weak, male-dominant parties interact to marginalize women and Afro-descendants in Brazilian politics. This book demonstrates that party organizational strength (institutionalization) and the inclusion of women in party leadership can improve the electoral prospects of female legislative candidates and enhance democratic accountability and representativeness.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 161mm x 233mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781108429795
• ISBN-10: 1108429793
• Artikelnr.: 50858505

Autorenporträt

Kristin N. Wylie is Assistant Professor of Political Science at James Madison University, Virginia. She specializes in gender politics, representation, political parties, and Brazilian politics. Her research appears in Politics & Gender and the Journal of Black Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A crisis of representation: the puzzle of women's underrepresentation in
Brazil; 2. Willing and able: party institutionalization, party leadership,
and women's representation; 3. Brazil's quota law and the challenges of
institutional change amidst weak and gendered institutions; 4. Overcoming
gendered obstacles: voters, electoral rules, and parties; 5. Electoral
rules, party support, and women's unexpected successes in elections to the
Brazilian Senate; 6. Supermadres, Lutadoras, and technocrats: the bounded
profiles of Brazil's female politicians; 7. Intersections between race and
fender in Brazil's 2014 Chamber of Deputies Elections; 8. Theoretical
implications and comparative perspectives.