REPRESENT welcomes Dr Zeynep Somer-Topcu (University of Texas) to give a guest lecture on her new work on participation, gender, and legitimacy in party leader selection.
Synopsis
Previous research has shown that expanding the leadership selectorate to include party members and having competitive leadership elections have a number of short-term benefits for a political party (Cozza and Somer-Topcu 2021). However, while we know that inclusive and competitive selections for party leadership help the party and improve procedural evaluations, we do not know how inclusive and competitive elections affect leader evaluations, and particularly for this paper, how the inclusive election procedure and the competitive leadership elections affect the substantive legitimacy evaluations of women leaders compared to men. We examine the gendered effects of selection details for party leadership with a conjoint experiment in the UK and show that women benefit more from inclusive and competitive leadership elections.
The guest lecture will be held online. Please register your attendance.
University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD
email: fernando.casal.bertoa@nottingham.ac.uk