TheRighttoBeElected Format: TradePaperback

Shames,ShaunaL.

ISBN 10: 1946511536 / ISBN 13: 9781946511539

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• Title: TheRighttoBeElected Format: TradePaperback
• ISBN 10: 1946511536
• ISBN 13: 9781946511539
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

What might happen if a woman’s right to vote is seen as coequal with her right to be elected?
Why are other countries so much better than the United States at electing women to office? In her lead essay in this anthology, Jennifer Piscopo argues that women in the United States haven’t fought for the right to be elected. A comparative political scientist, she shows that suffrage movements around the world often focused not only on the right to vote, but also the right to stand for office. As a result, when these movements succeeded, they saw the right to be elected as a positive right, enabling nationwide-efforts to both encourage and actively recruit female candidates. In her exploration of positive and negative rights in the United States, Piscopo explores what might happen if a woman’s right to vote is seen as coequal with her right to be elected, considering, among other things, how our definitions of representational government could both change and restore public trust in democracy.

About the Author

Jennifer M. Piscopo is Associate Professor of Politics at Occidental College. She is a coeditor of The Impact of Gender Quotas.

Shauna L. Shames is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Rutgers–Camden. She is the author of Out of the Running: Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why It Matters.