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Glass Cliffs or Partisan Pressure? Examining Gender and Party Leader Tenures and Exits.

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العنوان: Glass Cliffs or Partisan Pressure? Examining Gender and Party Leader Tenures and Exits.
المؤلفون: O'Neill, Brenda, Pruysers, Scott, Stewart, David K
المصدر: Political Studies; May2021, Vol. 69 Issue 2, p257-277, 21p, 7 Charts, 1 Graph
مصطلحات موضوعية: PARTISANSHIP, POLITICAL party leadership, POLITICS & gender, WOMEN in politics, POLITICAL parties
مستخلص: This article adds to our understanding of the gendered impact of informal rules and norms for party leaders. Specifically, it examines the gendered nature of party leader tenures and exits. Using original data collected on party leader experiences in Canada, we test for the existence of gender differences in leader tenures and exits, and examine two potential explanations for any differences. We find that leader tenures and exits are indeed gendered but only within parties with the potential to form government, ones where the political stakes are highest. Within these major parties, women's tenures as party leaders are significantly shorter than men's and they are significantly more likely to be forced to resign from the position. We find clear evidence of the existence of the glass cliff phenomenon in major parties but unclear evidence of its role in women's shorter tenures. Instead, women's shorter tenures are explained by the harsher set of standards being applied to women party leaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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