Kristin N. Wylie

Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation in Democratic Brazil (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Brazil's quality of democracy remains limited by enduring obstacles including the weakness of parties and underrepresentation of marginalized groups. Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation in Democratic Brazil theorizes the connections across those problems, explaining how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties interact to undermine descriptive representation in Brazil. This book draws on an original multilevel database of 27,653 legislative candidacies spanning six election cycles, over 100 interviews, and field observations from throughout Brazil. Wylie demonstrates that more inclusive participation in candidate-centered elections amidst raced-gendered structural inequities relies on institutionalized parties with the capacity to support women, and the will, heralded by party leadership, to do so. The book illustrates how women leaders in Brazil's more institutionalized parties enable white and Afro-descendant female aspirants to navigate the masculinized terrain of formal politics. It enhances our understanding of how parties mediate electoral rules, as well as institutional and party change in the context of weak but robustly gendered institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108601795
• Artikelnr.: 53479739

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.