By Meryl Kenny
This e-book explores the gendered dynamics of institutional innovation, continuity and alter in candidate choice and recruitment. Drawing at the insights of feminist institutionalism, it extends the 'supply and insist version' of political recruitment through a micro-level case research of the candidate choice strategy in post-devolution Scotland.
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Instead, they call for a critical interrogation of the model of the ‘ideal candidate’, which they argue favors the stereotype of a white, male, professional: ‘both the way in which the role of the candidate is defined and the candidate qualities sought tend to penalise many women’ (Lovenduski and Norris, 1989, p. 559). Similarly, Jenny Chapman’s (1993) analysis of selection practices for local government candidates in Scotland finds that in each of the main parties, the typical profile of female candidates resembled that of ‘losing men’.
As such, Krook puts a central emphasis on issues of timing, sequence and context, analysing how the impact of a particular configuration of institutions shifts as one or more institutions in the configuration are reinforced or reformed in the course of a quota campaign. Attempts to reform one of the institutions of political recruitment can be helped or hindered by the other two institutions of political recruitment, and, as a result, similar institutional reforms can produce radically different outcomes across cases, while different institutional reforms can produce relatively similar outcomes.
As such, Krook puts a central emphasis on issues of timing, sequence and context, analysing how the impact of a particular configuration of institutions shifts as one or more institutions in the configuration are reinforced or reformed in the course of a quota campaign. Attempts to reform one of the institutions of political recruitment can be helped or hindered by the other two institutions of political recruitment, and, as a result, similar institutional reforms can produce radically different outcomes across cases, while different institutional reforms can produce relatively similar outcomes.
