Editors:
- Offers a comparative study of the rise of women to the highest political office
- Combines theoretical chapters with eight country studies from four regions of the world
- Makes a significant contribrution to the underexplored field of gender and leadership
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership (PSPL)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“This book deftly combines theoretical explanations for the scarcity of women in chief executive political roles worldwide using case studies of women as leaders across Latin American, African, Asian, and post-transition European contexts. Explaining why female chief executives are so rare combines sociological, cultural, economic, and political threads and provides the reader with a platform to analyze the particular cases that follow and the obstacles as well as possibilities that confront gender-based reforms proposed by women political leaders. Overall, this book provides a nice combination of generalized explanation and specific social and political contexts and is shaped through an excellent introduction by the editor.” (Professor Emeritus Bert A. Rockman, Purdue University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
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Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny, McKeesport, USA
Verónica Montecinos
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women Presidents and Prime Ministers in Post-Transition Democracies
Editors: Verónica Montecinos
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48240-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48239-6Published: 23 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48240-2Published: 15 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-5821
Series E-ISSN: 2947-583X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 300
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Comparative Politics, Democracy, Public Policy, Political Communication