Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? (eBook, ePUB)

A Comparative Look at Conservative Women in Politics in Democracies
Redaktion: Och, Malliga; Cooperman, Rosalyn; Shames, Shauna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the central question of how right-wing women navigate the cross-pressures between gender identity and political ideology. Under what circumstances do conservative women become feminist allies and when do they toe the party line when representing voters, advance policies, and increase the number of women within the party?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000799149
• Artikelnr.: 65963874

Autorenporträt

Malliga Och is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Idaho State University, USA. She is an expert on women in politics focusing on conservative parties in advanced industrialized democracies. She is the co-editor of The Right Women: Republican Party Activists, Candidates, and Legislators (with Shauna Shames, 2018). Shauna Shames is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University - Camden, USA. She is the author of Out of the Running: Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why it Matters (2017), co-author of Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics (2019), and co-editor of The Right Women: Republican Activists, Candidates, and Legislators (with Malliga Och, 2018). Rosalyn Cooperman is Professor of Political Science at the University of Mary Washington, USA. Her research focuses on how political parties influence women's political candidacy. Since 2004, she has served as a principal investigator for the Convention Delegate Study, a survey of Democratic and Republican party activists.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? A Comparative Look at
Rightist, Political Women in Democracies 1. Where Do Female Conservatives
Stand? A Cross-National Analysis of the Issue Positions and Ideological
Placement of Female Right-Wing Candidates 2. Mapping Right-Wing Women's
Policy Priorities in Latin America 3. Left, Right, and Center: Women's
Political Incorporation in the OECD 4. The Merit of Party Institutions:
Women's Descriptive Representation and Conservative Parties in Australia
and the United Kingdom 5. Framing Identity Politics: Right-Wing Women as
Strategic Party Actors in the UK and US