Women remain underrepresented in cabinets, especially in high-prestige,“masculine”
portfolios. Still, a growing number of states have appointed women to the finance ministry—a …

The connection between women leaders and superior pandemic performance is likely
spurious. This narrative overlooks that women currently govern precisely the kinds of …

Informed by scholarship on gendered leadership, feminist institutionalism, and policy
failures, the article asks whether hypermasculine leadership traits–displayed in rhetoric …

Political parties around the world are adopting primaries to select leaders and legislative
candidates. While a large, though inconclusive, literature has emerged in the American …

Political parties exist at the centre of democratic politics, but where does power lie within
them, and how is it exercised? The Political Party in Canada explores the inner workings of …

This paper examines the effect of party primaries on women's chances of winning a
leadership contest in eight Western parliamentary countries since 1985. By doing so, we …

Women leaders must still negotiate the boundaries and limitations of a highly masculine
office. This article compares the strategies and approaches of two UK Prime Ministers who …

This article revisits the foundations of previous research on the selection of party leaders.
The authors argue that leader selection in party congresses entails two dimensions …

Women politicians have long faced a gendered media environment, where their novelty,
potential (in) competence, family, and appearance have been over-emphasized in …

In this article, the aim is to enhance our understanding of who has power over leader
selection in political parties. To this end, we apply an analytical framework in which the …