It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office
- ISBN-10
- 0521857457
- ISBN-13
- 9780521857451
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 203
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-09-12
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Richard Logan Fox, Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox
Description
This book serves as the first nationwide empirical account of how gender affects political ambition.
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