Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment Explaining M

Parliaments around the world are still overwhelmingly populated by men, yet studies of male dominance are much rarer than are studies of female under-representation. In this book, men in politics are the subjects of a gendered analysis. How do men manage

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10.1057/9781137296740 - Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment, Elin Bjarnegård

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Gender and Politics Series

This timely new series publishes leading monographs and edited collections from scholars working in the disciplinary areas of politics, international relations and public policy with specific reference to questions of gender. The series showcases cutting-edge research in Gender and Politics, publishing topical and innovative approaches to gender politics. It will include exciting work from new authors and well-known academics and will also publish high-impact writings by practitioners working in issues relating to gender and politics. The series covers politics, international relations and public policy, including gendered engagement with mainstream political science issues, such as political systems and policymaking, representation and participation, citizenship and identity, equality, and women’s movements; gender and international relations, including feminist approaches to international institutions, political economy and global politics; and interdisciplinary and emergent areas of study, such as masculinities studies, gender and multiculturalism, and intersectionality. Potential contributors are encouraged to contact the series editors: Johanna Kantola ([email protected]) Judith Squires ([email protected]) Series Advisory Board: Louise Chappell, University of Sydney, Australia Joni Lovenduksi, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Amy Mazur, Washington State University, USA Jacqui True, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mieke Verloo, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Laurel Weldon, Purdue University, USA Titles include: Gabriele Abels and Joyce Marie Mushaben (editors) GENDERING THE EUROPEAN UNION New Approaches to Old Democratic Deficits Elin Bjarnegård GENDER, INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL RECRUITMENT Explaining Male Dominance in Parliamentary Representation Sarah Childs, Paul Webb SEX, GENDER AND THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels Jonathan Dean RETHINKING CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST POLITICS

10.1057/9781137296740 - Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment, Elin Bjarnegård

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Series Editors: Johanna Kantola, University of Helsinki, Finland and Judith Squires, University of Bristol, UK

Meryl Kenny GENDER AND POLITICAL RECRUITMENT Theorising Institutional Change

Mona Lena Krook and Fiona Mackay (editors) GENDER, POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS Towards a Feminist Institutionalism Emanuela Lombardo and Maxime Forest (editors) THE EUROPEANIZATION OF GENDER EQUALITY POLICIES A Discursive-Sociological Approach Birte Siim and Monika Mokre (editors) NEGOTIATING GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN AN EMERGENT EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE Polly Wilding NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES Gender, violence and transf