Going alone and taking the independent route: new insights on female candidate emergence

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2020-05-26
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Buckley, Fiona
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Bristol University Press
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Using a novel approach - examining independent women and comparing them with their party counterparts - this article offers new insights on candidate emergence, recruitment and election of women, within and beyond political parties. To-date, studies of gender, candidate recruitment and institutions have concentrated on parties and party women. These studies highlight the gendered aspects of party candidate recruitment and conclude that parties are gate-keepers of women’s candidacy. This article finds that beyond party boundaries, the emergence and election of independent women is circumscribed by individual, institutional and political culture dynamics which have consequences for independent women’s candidacy. The independent route is no less gendered or more advantageous a pathway for women’s candidacy.
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Independents , Candidate emergence , Candidate recruitment , Gender , Institutions , Women
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Buckley, F. (2020) ‘Going alone and taking the independent route: new insights on female candidate emergence’, European Journal of Politics and Gender. doi: 10.1332/251510820X15891285007145
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© 2020, Bristol University Press. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in European Journal of Politics and Gender. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: Buckley, F. (2020) ‘Going alone and taking the independent route: new insights on female candidate emergence’, European Journal of Politics and Gender, doi: 10.1332/251510820X15891285007145 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/251510820X15891285007145