by Magda Hinojosa
Temple University Press, 2012
Paper: 978-1-4399-0848-8 | Cloth: 978-1-4399-0847-1 | eISBN: 978-1-4399-0849-5
Library of Congress Classification HQ1236.5.L37H56 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.98082

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Selecting Women, Electing Women is a groundbreaking book that examines how the rules for candidate selection affect women’s political representation in Latin America.  Focusing particularly on Chile and Mexico, Magda Hinojosa presents counterintuitive assumptions about factors that promote the election of women. She argues that primaries—which are regularly thought of as the most democratic process for choosing candidates—actually produce fewer female nominees than centralized and seemingly exclusionary candidate selection procedures.

Hinojosa astutely points out the role of candidate selection processes in explaining variation in women’s representation that exists both across and within political parties. Selecting Women, Electing Women makes critical inroads to the study of gender and politics, candidate selection, and Latin American politics.