Good Reasons To Run: Women And Political Candidacy - 9781439919569
Temple University Press
ISBN13:
9781439919569
$39.48
After the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, a large cohort of women emerged to run for office. Their efforts changed the landscape of candidates and representation. However, women are still far less likely than men to seek elective office, and face biases and obstacles in campaigns. (Women running for Congress make twice as many phone calls as men to raise the same contributions.) The editors and contributors to Good Reasons to Run, a mix of scholars and practitioners, examine the reasons why women runand do not runfor political office. They focus on the opportunities, policies, and structures that promote womens candidacies. How do nonprofits help recruit and finance women as candidates? And what role does money play in womens campaigns? The essays in Good Reasons to Run ask not just who wants to run, but how to activate and encourage such ambition among a larger population of potential female candidates while also increasing the diversity of women running for office.
- | Author: Shauna L. Shames, Rachel I. Bernhard, Mirya R. Holman, Dawn Langan Teele
- | Publisher: Temple University Press
- | Publication Date: May 01, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 324 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1439919569
- | ISBN-13: 9781439919569
- Author:
- Shauna L. Shames, Rachel I. Bernhard, Mirya R. Holman, Dawn Langan Teele
- Publisher:
- Temple University Press
- Publication Date:
- May 01, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 324 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1439919569
- ISBN-13:
- 9781439919569