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Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment: Explaining Male Dominance in Parliamentary Representation

Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment: Explaining Male Dominance in Parliamentary Representation

Bjarnegård, E.

Paperback

Series: Gender and Politics

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political ScienceMen's Studies

ISBN10: 1137545313
ISBN13: 9781137545312
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Feb 18 2013
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Parliaments around the world are still overwhelmingly populated by men, yet studies of male dominance are much rarer than are studies of female under-representation. In this book, men in politics are the subjects of a gendered analysis.

How do men manage to hold on to positions of power despite societal trends in the opposite direction? And why do men seek to cooperate mainly with other men? Elin Bjarnegård studies how male networks are maintained and expanded and seeks to improve our understanding of the rationale underlying male dominance in politics. The findings build on results both from statistical analyses of parliamentary composition worldwide and from extensive field work in Thailand. A new concept, homosocialcapital, is coined and developed to help us understand the persistence of male political dominance.

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