Intersectionality, Recruitment and Selection: Ethnic Minority Candidates in Dutch Parties

• Liza M. Mügge ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Amsterdam

     University of Amsterdam

     Países Bajos

     
• Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 69, Nº 3, 2016, págs. 512-530
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article aims to contribute to explanations why ethnic minority women outnumber ethnic minority men in national parliaments of European immigration countries. Extending the intersectional lens it asks: which ethnic minority candidates are recruited and selected? Drawing on nine elections (1986–2012) in the Netherlands, I find that the success of ethnic minority women candidates is not related to a structural advantage: it changes over time and across and within groups. How gender and ethnicity intersect is informed by generation, (parental) birth country, a group's political starting position and how political parties in power incorporate gender or ethnic diversity.