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Findings This paper found that party internship programs can play three major roles in encouraging students at higher education institutions to join a political party.
It sets out a critical dialogue between party politics and gender politics scholarship and points to the need for more research on how political parties facilitate or block women’s access to political office.
Findings: Finding a party to vote for is primarily characterized by a process of matching a party to students' political self, which we see as steps toward a political identity.
A successful party may perform many other important functions for a political system including recruiting personnel for government, political socialization, defining political issues, managing societal conflicts and
Inclusion at school and in social groups makes it easier to get into political jobs or to try to get elected.
The processes political parties use to select their candidates for public office constitute a crucial element of political recruitment in representative democracies and provide important insights into how power is distributed within party organisations.
We conclude that political parties function as a linkage mechanism between citizens and the state, but that there is no reason to attribute a privileged role to formal party membership, as feeling close to a political party has a stronger linkage effect.
Our study depicts a political environment monopolized by party leaders who reward party loyalty but hamper legislators in appealing directly to voters.
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Tània Verge, Sílvia Claveria 
01 Sep 2018-Party Politics
36 Citations
This suggests that party office is a gendered political resource and that gender power dynamics are deeply entrenched in political parties.
Furthermore, social and conventional job demands do not significantly moderate the political skill‐job performance...