Topics in Gender and Politics

Topics

• Initial calculations: candidacy and representation
• Initial calculations: leadership qualities
• Initial calculations: candidate emergence
• Personal calculations: family
• Personal calculations: health
• Financial calculations: campaign fundraising
• Financial calculations: employment
• Partisan calculations: ideological misalignment & party issues
• Reputational calculations: scandals
• Reputational calculations: harassment
• Reputational calculations: mediation
• Appreciate the importance of political candidacy to the democratic system
• Develop a sound understanding of the nature and complexities of political candidacy