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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 answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continui...

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Group Author: Krook, Mona Lena; Mackay, Fiona
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Gender and politics
Subjects:
Feminist theory
Women > Political activity
Sex discrimination against women
Public administration > Social aspects
Public administration
Comparative politics
Feminism & feminist theory
Political structure & processes
Political science & theory
Politics and Government
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230303911
Summary: 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 answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.
"This superb book is one of those rare collections that moves a field forward. Scholars of institutionalism, for all their vital contributions to the social sciences, have given short shrift to inequality. Feminist social scientists have made inequality their core concern ... Krook and Mackay ... open up a pathbreaking terrain for the study of feminist institutionalism." -Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Government Department, Cornell University, USA "A really innovative and important collection which shows, both theoretically and in rich empirical detail, the considerable challenge that feminism p
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230245884, 2010.
Carrier Form: 256 p. : 0 ill.
ISBN: 9780230245884
9780230303911 :
0230303919 :
CLC: D523
Contents: 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 Gender and Insti

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