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'Rethinking the conventional supply-and-demand model of political recruitment, Gender and Political Recruitment represents a seminal contribution to the emerging literature on feminist institutionalism. Combining macro- and micro-level data on candidate selection dynamics in Scotland, Kenny provides a nuanced and critical appraisal of the prospects for reforming institutions in the face of powerful gendered legacies. The book thus offers important new insights to institutionalist scholars, feminist research, and most importantly those interested in forging new syntheses across these approaches.'
Mona Lena Krook, Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, USA
'Meryl Kenny's book demonstrates the extent to and ways in which processes of political recruitment are gendered. She provides both evidence and argument of such gendering to be a continuing process that interacts with the formal and informal political institutions through which processes of political recruitment operate. Her analysis demonstrates the crucial importance of feminist institutionalist approaches to the understanding of how political representation is gendered.'
Joni Lovenduski FBA, Anniversary Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
'In this brilliant debut, Meryl Kenny combines conceptual innovation, forensic analysis, and compelling story-telling to capture the gendered dynamics of the institutions of political recruitment. Gender and Political Recruitment demonstrates the considerable promise of a feminist institutionalist approach for not only gender and politics scholars but also for 'mainstream' political science. It should be required reading for anyone engaged with, or intrigued by, the gendered puzzles of political recruitment and the wider dynamics of inequality in political life.'
Fiona Mackay, Professor of Politics, University of Edinburgh, UK
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Book Title: Gender and Political Recruitment
Book Subtitle: Theorizing Institutional change
Authors: Meryl Kenny
Series Title: Gender and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137271945
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27192-1Published: 07 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44471-7Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-27194-5Published: 07 May 2013
Series ISSN: 2662-5814
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5822
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 226
Topics: British Politics, European Politics, Political Science, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Social Policy