The main purpose of this article is to present a brief review of the literature concerning the political recruitment and offer some empirical criteria for analysis. From a integrated perspective, we draw a framework that stablish the relationship between the social structure and the political institutions. The model of offer and demand was used to treat the inputs of the social background and the possible outputs within the institutions. The data presented is from a diversity of sources and has privileged the process of women inclusion in diferents kinds of democracies and societies. The results points out that only with the interaction between social background and institutional demand is possible to determinate the final result for representativiness and the filters of political recruitment. Besides that, the data allowed us to reveal an increment in the participation of the party bases in the nomination of candidate process. We conclude that the process of candidate selection is one of the most technical and hidden functions of political parties. The increase in the offer and reduction in the demand side has promoted a bunch of several consequences to representative democracy, as the insertion of women in the same time of the professionalization within the political parties.
political recruitment; candidate selection; women representation; democracy
