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

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 revie...

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Main Author: Márcio Cunha Carlomagno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2015-12-01
Series:Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais
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Online Access:http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/19321
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2176-6665