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Women Presidents and Prime Ministers in Post-Transition Democracies
Veronica . Ed(S): Montecinos
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Description for Women Presidents and Prime Ministers in Post-Transition Democracies
Hardback. Editor(s): Montecinos, Veronica. Series: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Num Pages: 286 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; JPHV; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book contributes to our understanding of the trajectories and prerogatives of female political leaders in the varying context of democratization, political institutions and cultural norms. No woman had been elected leader of a country before 1960, but with democratic transitions on the rise since the 1970s, the number of women in executive office gradually became a trend of global scope. In 2015, nineteen countries had an elected female Head of State and/or Government, a proportionally small number that is expected to climb as more women compete for high office, sometimes against other female candidates. This volume compares how women executives differ in promoting gender equality and advocating for women’s ... Read more
This book contributes to our understanding of the trajectories and prerogatives of female political leaders in the varying context of democratization, political institutions and cultural norms. No woman had been elected leader of a country before 1960, but with democratic transitions on the rise since the 1970s, the number of women in executive office gradually became a trend of global scope. In 2015, nineteen countries had an elected female Head of State and/or Government, a proportionally small number that is expected to climb as more women compete for high office, sometimes against other female candidates. This volume compares how women executives differ in promoting gender equality and advocating for women’s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137482396
SKU
V9781137482396
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99-15
About Veronica . Ed(S): Montecinos
Verónica Montecinos is Professor of Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny, USA. She authored Economists, Politics and the State: Chile 1958 – 1994 (1998) and co-edited Economists in the Americas (2009). She has published essays on democratization, technocratic politics, history of economic ideas, and gender and pensions.
Reviews for Women Presidents and Prime Ministers in Post-Transition Democracies
“This book makes an important contribution to the knowledge base about the role that economic, cultural, and political conditions play in women’s leadership in post-transition democracies, which has been a highly ignored issue. … Overall, this book will be reference reading for scholars working on women’s participation in politics in general, and in post-transition democracies in particular.” (Sema Akboga, Democratization, ... Read more