Opening Up the Black Box: Gender and Candidate Selection in a New Era

摘要: Recent global developments, including the feminization of parliaments and rise gender quotas, have transformed ways in which parties legislatures operate. This introduction to special issue ‘Candidate Selection: Parties Legislatures a New Era’ puts these recent developments context, making case for revisiting ‘secret garden’ candidate selection light this ‘new era’ politics. It sets out critical dialogue between party politics scholarship points need more research on how political facilitate or block women’s access office. Building burgeoning recruitment, it outlines gendered institutional approach allows us retheorize processes opens up new avenues empirically examining pathways prior election. The article then introduces papers concludes by evaluating main implications gendering analyses broadly.