Defending the Status Quo: On Adaptive Resistance to the Electoral Gender Quotas. By Cecilia Josefsson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 280p.

Abstract

Defending the Status Quo: On Adaptive Resistance to Electoral Gender Quotas is an exceptional book where Cecilia Josefsson examines the resistance strategies employed by male political elites against a complex endogenous institutional change: the adoption of gender quota laws. This outstandingly written book develops a detailed theory about resistance to gender quotas and is based on extensive qualitative fieldwork.