Gender, European integration and candidate recruitment : the European Parliament elections in the new EU member states

Chiva, MC

Abstract

The paper investigates women's representation in the European Parliament delegations of the new member states by bringing together three distinct strands of scholarship: the second-order elections model, feminist theories of candidate recruitment and the literature on party positions on European integration. It tests three hypotheses explaining women's selection as candidates in European elections: the impact of electoral systems; the impact of political parties’ left–right placement and the impact of party positions on European integration. The key finding is that gendered patterns of candidate recruitment in the new member states are best explained as a function of political parties’ positions on European integration, with electoral systems and left–right placement having only a limited impact on the selection of women candidates.

Citation

Chiva, M. (2014). Gender, European integration and candidate recruitment : the European Parliament elections in the new EU member states. Parliamentary Affairs, 67(2), 458-494. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gss047

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Aug 30, 2012
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: May 6, 2014
• Journal: Parliamentary Affairs
• Print ISSN: 0031-2290
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 458-494
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gss047
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gss047
• Related Public URLs: http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/