Description: Women, Politics, and Power is the essential text on women in politics. It provides a clear and detailed introduction to women's political representation globally and comparatively across six regions. Readers learn about cultural, structural, political, and international influences on women's power and the difference women make once in office.
Review Quotes: This is the book you want your students to read before class; accessible and comprehensive; engaging and pacy; combining conceptual clarity alongside illustrative empirical examples; and introductory and yet extensively illustrated, substantiated, and evidenced. Women, Politics, and Power is a critical resource too for the lecturer, with its focus in the first section on historical patterns, theories of representation, and intersectionality and difference, followed by a second section that provides global coverage via a deeper regional overview. Its in-text referencing and extensive bibliography enables all readers to thereafter follow their own interests in politics and gender yet further.