It takes a candidate : why women don't run for office /

Serving as the first systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition, and based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Study, a national survey conducted on almost 3,800 potential candidates, this looks at why women are less likely than men to d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawless, Jennifer L., 1975-
Other Authors: Fox, Richard Logan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005
Subjects:
USA
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Summary:Serving as the first systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition, and based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Study, a national survey conducted on almost 3,800 potential candidates, this looks at why women are less likely than men to demonstrate political ambition
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index
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