It Still Takes A Candidate: Why Women Don'T Run For Office
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Expanded edition, 8/19/2010
EAN 9780521179249, ISBN10: 0521179246
Paperback, 256 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800 'potential candidates' in 2001 and a second survey of more than 2,000 of these same individuals in 2008, Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox find that women, even in the highest tiers of professional accomplishment, are substantially less likely than men to demonstrate ambition to seek elective office. Women are less likely than men to be recruited to run for office. They are less likely than men to think they are qualified to run for office. And they are less likely than men to express a willingness to run for office in the future. This gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time.
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 collection
Appendix B. The first wave survey (2001)
Appendix C. The second wave survey (2008)
Appendix D. The interview questionnaire
Appendix E. Variable coding.