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How do gendered and intersectional logics shape which candidates parties recruit, promote, and retain? This panel brings together five papers examining the mechanisms through which notions of winnability, party selector evaluations, local leadership structures, youth inclusion, and strategic candidate placement generate unequal opportunities in political careers. The papers investigate: (1) how the concept of “winnability” is constructed through gendered norms of experience and visibility, functioning as an early-stage gatekeeping device that filters out women; (2) how party selectors evaluate incumbents for re-nomination, and how criteria tied to power-seeking behavior and parliamentary status advantage men and disadvantage women; (3) how women’s grassroots leadership networks and informal political intermediaries interact with party-centered systems of legitimacy, shaping the demand for and supply of women as local leaders; (4) how age and gender intersect to shape electoral and party support, and how strategic placement of young female candidates in unwinnable constituencies reproduces their underrepresentation; and (5) how class and gender jointly influence strategic placement decisions, with party elites relying on social background cues and insider professional profiles to determine who is allocated to winnable seats.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Contesting Leadership and Legitimacy at the Grassroots: Women’s Self-Help Groups and Political Intermediaries in Urban India | View Paper Details |
| Intersectional Barriers to Electoral Success in African Legislatures: Insights from Nigeria | View Paper Details |
| Who Gets to Run? Exploring the Gendered Politics of Winnability in the Candidate Selection Process | View Paper Details |
| Strategic Candidate Placement in the UK 2015, 2017 and 2019 General Elections: Examining the Effects of Class and Gender | View Paper Details |
| Who Gets to Stay? The Gendered Consequenses of Party Selector Evaluations in Re-nominations to Viable Spots | View Paper Details |