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It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2006

Eric Plutzer
Eric Plutzer
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The Pennsylvania State University
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It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office. By Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. 203 pp. $65.00 cloth, $22.99 paper.

Why do so few women occupy elected offices in the United States? One reason, perhaps the most important one, is that fewer women than men are politically ambitious. That is the major conclusion to emerge from the innovative research conducted by Jennifer Lawless and Richard Fox. This finding alone is bound to make It Takes a Candidate a must-read, must-cite book for all scholars studying gender and politics.

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BOOK REVIEWS
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 418 - 420
Copyright
© 2006 The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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