Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic Canada: First-hand Perspectives on Local Public Life and Participation in Electoral Politics
Louise I. Carbert
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hardcover. Carbert not only contextualizes the results in terms of economic and demographic structures of rural Atlantic Canada, but also considers points of comparison and contrast with other parts of the country. Num Pages: 176 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Most people are aware of the large and persistent gender imbalance in elected office at all levels of government in Canada, but few appreciate the far greater imbalance that occurs outside of large cities. This deficit arises not from rural voter bias, but from low numbers of female candidates running for winnable seats. The question of why there are so few female candidates has been difficult to answer, largely because we know so little about the pool of potential candidates.
Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic Canada presents results from a regional field-based study, which confronted this challenge directly for ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802091253
SKU
V9780802091253
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About Louise I. Carbert
Louise Carbert is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University.
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