It Still Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office, Revised and Expanded Edition

by Richard L. Fox and Jennifer L. Lawless

Book Overview

It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800 'potential candidates' in 2001 and a second survey of more than 2,000 of these same individuals in 2008, Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox find that women, even in the highest tiers of professional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521179246
• ISBN13: 9780521179249
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"