Throwing Your Hat Out of the Ring: Negative Recruitment and the Gender Imbalance in State Legislative Candidacy

Politics and Gender

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 473-489

  Niven, David ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 54049129819     PISSN: 1743923X     EISSN: 17439248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X06060120     Document Type: Article

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