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The Gender Regime of Political Parties: Feedback Effects between “Supply” and “Demand”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2015

Tània Verge
Tània Verge*
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Is women's chronic minority status worldwide explained by a lack of women wishing to stand for political office or by party selectors’ disinterest in selecting women candidates? This debate continues among gender politics scholars; however, an increasing number of studies highlight the need to further investigate how the demands of party selectors might shape the supply of women candidates, especially in strong parliamentary democracies where political parties are the key gatekeepers (Kenny 2013; Murray 2010). This concern was already present in Norris and Lovenduski's (1995) original model, which called for a deeper examination of the “interaction effects” between “supply” and “demand.” In engaging with this call, I argue that the constraining effects of supply are reinforced not only by the demands of party selectors, but also by the everyday (gendered) functioning of political parties, which helps us understand the differential chances of women and men eventually becoming candidates.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 754 - 759
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2015 

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