1st Edition
Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? A Comparative Look at Conservative Women in Politics in Democracies
Introduction: Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? A Comparative Look at Rightist, Political Women in Democracies
Shauna Shames, Malliga Och and Rosalyn Cooperman
1. Where Do Female Conservatives Stand? A Cross-National Analysis of the Issue Positions and Ideological Placement of Female Right-Wing Candidates
Roosmarijn A. de Geus and Rosalind Shorrocks
2. Mapping Right-Wing Women’s Policy Priorities in Latin America
Victoria D. Beall and Tiffany D. Barnes
3. Left, Right, and Center: Women’s Political Incorporation in the OECD
Christina Xydias
4. The Merit of Party Institutions: Women’s Descriptive Representation and Conservative Parties in Australia and the United Kingdom
Marija Taflaga and Katrine Beauregard
5. Framing Identity Politics: Right-Wing Women as Strategic Party Actors in the UK and US
Catherine Wineinger and Mary K. Nugent
Biography
Malliga Och is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Idaho State University, USA. She is an expert on women in politics focusing on conservative parties in advanced industrialized democracies. She is the co-editor of The Right Women: Republican Party Activists, Candidates, and Legislators (with Shauna Shames, 2018).
Shauna Shames is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University – Camden, USA. She is the author of Out of the Running: Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why it Matters (2017), co-author of Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics (2019), and co-editor of The Right Women: Republican Activists, Candidates, and Legislators (with Malliga Och, 2018).
Rosalyn Cooperman is Professor of Political Science at the University of Mary Washington, USA. Her research focuses on how political parties influence women’s political candidacy. Since 2004, she has served as a principal investigator for the Convention Delegate Study, a survey of Democratic and Republican party activists.
