Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations) - Image 1

£52.90

Oxford University Press Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)

Name: Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 48.79 GBP
Availability: InStock

Africa

Price History & Forecast

Last 35 days • 35 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 35 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £49 (34 days, 97.1%)

Price range: £49 - £53

Price levels: 2 different prices over 35 days

Description

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at [Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing examines women's experiences in African politics as aspirants to public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected representatives. Part I evaluates women's efforts to become party candidates in four African countries: Benin, Ghana, Malawi, and Zambia. The chapters draw on a variety of methods, including extensive interviews with women candidates, to describe and assess the barriers confronted when women seek to enter politics. The chapters help explain why women remain underrepresented as candidates for office, particularly in countries without gender-based quotas, by emphasizing the impact of financial constraints, fears of violence, and resistance among party leaders. Part II turns to women's experiences as candidates during elections in Kenya and Ghana. One chapter provides an in-depth account of a woman's presidential bid in Kenya, demonstrating how gendered ethnicity undermined her candidacy, and another chapter presents a novel evaluation of the media's coverage of women candidates in Ghana. Part III turns to women as legislators in Namibia, Uganda, and Burkina Faso, asking whether women engage in substantive representation on gendered policy issues once in office. The chapters challenge the assumption that a critical mass of women is necessary or sufficient to achieve substantive representation. Taken together, the book's chapters problematize existing hypotheses regarding women in political power, drawing on understudied countries and variety of empirical methods. By following political pathways from entry to governance, the book uncovers how gendered experiences early in the political process shape what is possible for women once they attain political power. Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations is a series for scholars and students working on African politics and International Relations and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on contemporary developments in African political science, political economy, and International Relations, such as electoral politics, democratization, decentralization, the political impact of natural resources, the dynamics and consequences of conflict, and the nature of the continent's engagement with the East and West. Comparative and mixed methods work is particularly encouraged. Case studies are welcomed but should demonstrate the broader theoretical and empirical implications of the study and its wider relevance to contemporary debates. The series focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, although proposals that explain how the region engages with North Africa and other parts of the world are of interest. Series Editors: Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy and International Development, University of Birmingham; and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Professor of the International Politics of Africa, University of Oxford.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0192898078
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Government & Politics > Countries & Regions > Africa
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 September 2021
Listed Since: 09 April 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Multiethnic Democracy: The Logic of Elections and Policymaking in Kenya (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)

Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)

African Climate Futures (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)

Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)

Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters: The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)

Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa

Women's Political Communication in Africa: Issues and Perspectives (Contributions to Political Science)

The African Affairs Reader: Key Texts in Politics, Development, and International Relations

Women Researching in Africa: The Impact of Gender

Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa: From participation to transformation (Africa Now)

Political Leadership in Africa: Leaders and Development South of the Sahara

The Political Logic of Cultural Revival: Ethnic Visibility, Linked Fate, and Electoral Politics in Africa (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)

Gender and Power: Towards Equality and Democratic Governance

The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development

Women Presidents and Prime Ministers in Post-Transition Democracies (Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership)

Insights Into Gender Equity, Equality and Power Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa: Democracy, Voting and Virtue

Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century (International Political Economy Series)

Women's Activism in Africa: Struggles for Rights and Representation

Patriarchy and Gender in Africa

Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems (Oxford Studies in Democratization)

Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity? (Routledge Research in Gender and Politics)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women's History

Violence in African Elections: Between Democracy and Big Man Politics (Africa Now)