Women and Power in Africa
This book examines women’s experiences in African politics as aspirants to public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected representatives. Part I evaluates women’s efforts to become party candidates in four African countries: Benin, Ghana, Malawi, and Zambia. The chapters draw on...
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| description | This book examines women’s experiences in African politics as aspirants to public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected representatives. Part I evaluates women’s efforts to become party candidates in four African countries: Benin, Ghana, Malawi, and Zambia. The chapters draw on a variety of methods, including extensive interviews with women candidates, to describe and assess the barriers confronted when women seek to enter politics. The chapters help explain why women remain underrepresented as candidates for office, particularly in countries without gender-based quotas, by emphasizing the impact of financial constraints, fears of violence, and resistance among party leaders. Part II turns to women’s experiences as candidates during elections in Kenya and Ghana. One chapter provides an in-depth account of a woman’s presidential bid in Kenya, demonstrating how gendered ethnicity undermined her candidacy, and another chapter presents a novel evaluation of the media’s coverage of women candidates in Ghana. Part III turns to women as legislators in Namibia, Uganda, and Burkina Faso, asking whether women engage in substantive representation on gendered policy issues once in office. The chapters challenge the assumption that a critical mass of women is necessary or sufficient to achieve substantive representation. Taken together, the book’s chapters problematize existing hypotheses regarding women in political power, drawing on understudied countries and a variety of empirical methods. By following political pathways from entry to governance, the book uncovers how gendered experiences early in the political process shape what is possible for women once they attain political power. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1474102024-11-01T04:11:36Z Women and Power in Africa Arriola, Leonardo R. Johnson, Martha C. Phillips, Melanie L. women in politics, African politics, gender, gendered institutions, elections, democracy, candidacy, campaigns, descriptive representation, substantive representation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa This book examines women’s experiences in African politics as aspirants to public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected representatives. Part I evaluates women’s efforts to become party candidates in four African countries: Benin, Ghana, Malawi, and Zambia. The chapters draw on a variety of methods, including extensive interviews with women candidates, to describe and assess the barriers confronted when women seek to enter politics. The chapters help explain why women remain underrepresented as candidates for office, particularly in countries without gender-based quotas, by emphasizing the impact of financial constraints, fears of violence, and resistance among party leaders. Part II turns to women’s experiences as candidates during elections in Kenya and Ghana. One chapter provides an in-depth account of a woman’s presidential bid in Kenya, demonstrating how gendered ethnicity undermined her candidacy, and another chapter presents a novel evaluation of the media’s coverage of women candidates in Ghana. Part III turns to women as legislators in Namibia, Uganda, and Burkina Faso, asking whether women engage in substantive representation on gendered policy issues once in office. The chapters challenge the assumption that a critical mass of women is necessary or sufficient to achieve substantive representation. Taken together, the book’s chapters problematize existing hypotheses regarding women in political power, drawing on understudied countries and a variety of empirical methods. By following political pathways from entry to governance, the book uncovers how gendered experiences early in the political process shape what is possible for women once they attain political power. 2024-11-01T04:11:35Z 2024-11-01T04:11:35Z 2024-10-31T10:36:20Z 2021 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94133 9780191924538 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/147410 eng Oxford Studies in African Political International Relations (OSAPIR) open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94133/1/9780192652959_WEB%20%281%29.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780192898074.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780192898074.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 9780191924538 263 Oxford open access |
| spellingShingle | women in politics, African politics, gender, gendered institutions, elections, democracy, candidacy, campaigns, descriptive representation, substantive representation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa Women and Power in Africa |
| title | Women and Power in Africa |
| title_full | Women and Power in Africa |
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| title_short | Women and Power in Africa |
| title_sort | women and power in africa |
| topic | women in politics, African politics, gender, gendered institutions, elections, democracy, candidacy, campaigns, descriptive representation, substantive representation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa |
| topic_facet | women in politics, African politics, gender, gendered institutions, elections, democracy, candidacy, campaigns, descriptive representation, substantive representation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa |
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