Download or read book Party Politics, Religion, and Women's Leadership written by Fatima Sbaity Kassem and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the interlinkages of political parties, religiosity, and women's leadership and nominations to public office, this book argues that as party religiosity increases, women's chances of assuming leadership positions fall. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods, it advances a new theory of party variation in religiosity.