Keeping Men In, Shutting Women Out: Gender Biases in Candidate Selection Processes in Uruguay

摘要: Quota laws have been widely adopted in Latin America, with significant increases the number of women elected to parliament some countries. However, it is far from clear whether produced modifications gender regimes which inform internal party power structures and dynamics that would allow participate – as aspirants or selectors on an equal footing their male counterparts processes candidate selection. This article seeks identify critical nodes where interplay between different institutions systemic, normative practical selection intersects gendered relations facilitate hinder not only women’s access elective posts, but terms access. Employing a feminist institutionalist analytical framework, this presents findings qualitative case study research Uruguay 2009 2014 situates them within existing albeit small body studies American region.