Selecting Women, Electing Women
Subtitle
Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America
Selecting Women, Electing Women is a groundbreaking book that examines how the rules for candidate selection affect women's political representation in Latin America. Focusing particularly on Chile and Mexico, Magda Hinojosa presents counterintuitive findings about the factors that keep women out of politics. She argues that primaries — which are regularly thought of as the most "democratic" process for choosing candidates — actually produce fewer female nominees than centralized and seemingly exclusionary candidate-selection procedures.
Bio
Magda Hinojosa is associate professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. She has received awards from the Fulbright and Ford Foundations.
Praise for this book
'Selecting Women, Electing Women' is an outstanding book that explores the crucial, yet very understudied relationship between political party candidate-selection processes and the election of women in general elections in Latin America. Hinojosa does a fantastic job of combining cross-country comparative analysis with rich and detailed case studies from Chile and Mexico. She makes a convincing argument regarding the powerful (and varying) impact of different types of nomination procedures on the presence of women in public office.
Mark P. Jones Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Rice University
