Gender Quotas and Democratic Participation: Recruiting Candidates for Elective Offices in Germany

by Louise K. Davidson-Schmich

Since the 1970s, quotas for female political candidates in elections have proliferated worldwide. Beyond increasing the numbers of women in high-level elected bodies and, thereby, women's political representation, advocates claim that quotas foster gender-equal participation in democracy and create female role models. According to this reasoning, quotas also overcome barriers to women's political participation, especially discriminatory practices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472119745
• ISBN13: 9780472119745
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"