Table of Contents

Introduction: Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? A Comparative Look at Rightist, Political Women in Democracies 1. Where Do Female Conservatives Stand? A Cross-National Analysis of the Issue Positions and Ideological Placement of Female Right-Wing Candidates 2. Mapping Right-Wing Women’s Policy Priorities in Latin America 3. Left, Right, and Center: Women’s Political Incorporation in the OECD 4. The Merit of Party Institutions: Women’s Descriptive Representation and Conservative Parties in Australia and the United Kingdom 5. Framing Identity Politics: Right-Wing Women as Strategic Party Actors in the UK and US

About the Author

Malliga Och is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Idaho State University, USA. She is an expert on women in politics focusing on conservative parties in advanced industrialized democracies. She is the co-editor of The Right Women: Republican Party Activists, Candidates, and Legislators (with Shauna Shames, 2018).

Shauna Shames is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University – Camden, USA. She is the author of Out of the Running: Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why it Matters (2017), co-author of Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics (2019), and co-editor of The Right Women: Republican Activists, Candidates, and Legislators (with Malliga Och, 2018).

Rosalyn Cooperman is Professor of Political Science at the University of Mary Washington, USA. Her research focuses on how political parties influence women’s political candidacy. Since 2004, she has served as a principal investigator for the Convention Delegate Study, a survey of Democratic and Republican party activists.