It Still Takes A Candidate : Why Women Don't Run for Office.
It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition.
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Electoral Politics: Still a Man's World?; 2 Explaining Women's Emergence in the Political Arena; 3 The Gender Gap in Political Ambition; 4 Barefoot, Pregnant, and Holding a Law Degree: Family Dynamics and Running for Office; 5 Gender, Party, and Political Recruitment; 6 "I'm Just Not Qualified": Gendered Self-Perceptions of Candidate Viability; 7 Taking the Plunge: Deciding to Run for Office; 8 Gender and the Future of Electoral Politics.
- Appendix A: The Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study Sample Design and Data CollectionAppendix B: The First-Wave Survey (2001); Appendix C: The Second-Wave Survey (2008); Appendix D: The Interview Questionnaire; Appendix E: Variable Coding; Works Cited; Index.