Selecting Women, Electing Women

Selecting Women, Electing Women is a groundbreaking book that examines how the rules for candidate selection affect womenOCOs political representation in Latin America.a Focusing particularly on Chile and Mexico, Magda Hinojosa presents counterintuitive assumptions about factors that promote the election of women. She argues that primariesOCowhich are regularly thought of as the most democratic process for choosing candidatesOCoactually produce fewer female nominees than centralized and seemingly exclusionary candidate selection procedures.

Hinojosa astutely points out the role of candidate selection processes in explaining variation in womenOCOs representation that exists both across and within political parties. Selecting Women, Electing Women makes critical inroads to the study of gender and politics, candidate selection, and Latin American politics.