Gender, politics and institutions: towards a feminist institutionalism

Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered.This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answercrucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and thegendered limits of change. MONA LENA KROOK is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St Louis, USA. She is author of 'Quotas for Women in Politics' (2009) and co-editor of 'Women, Gender, and Politics' (2010). . FIONA MACKAY is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her most recent book is 'Women, Politics and Constitutional Change' (co-authored 2007). She and Mona Lena Krook are founders and co-directors of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (www.femfiin.com). INDICE: Foreword; 'J.Lovenduski' - Introduction: Gender, Politics, and Institutions: Setting the Agenda; 'F.Mackay '& 'M.L.Krook' - Gender and Institutions of Political Recruitment: Candidate Selection in Post-Devolution Scotland;'M.Kenny - 'Discursive Strategies for Institutional Reform: Gender Quotas in Sweden and France; 'L.Freidenvall '& 'M.L.Krook' - Gendered Institutions and Women's Substantive Representation: Female Legislators in Argentina and Chile; 'S.Franceschet' - Gendering the Institutional Reform of the Welfare State: Germany, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland; 'M.Beyeler '& 'C.Annesley - 'Genderand Institutions of Multi-Level Governance: Child Care and Social Policy Debates in Canada; 'J.Grace' - The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy: Comparing the Czech and Slovak Republics; 'H.HaE!ková '& 'S.Saxonberg' -Gendering Federalism: Institutions of Decentralization and Power-Sharing; 'J.Vickers' - Gendered Institutionalist Analysis: Understanding Democratic Transitions; 'G.Waylen' - Nested Newness and Institutional Innovation: Expanding Gender Justice in the International Criminal Court; 'L.Chappell - 'Conclusion: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism?; 'F.Mackay' -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24588-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido