Gender, Politics and Institutions [[electronic resource] ] : Towards a Feminist Institutionalism / / edited by M. Krook, F. Mackay

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791785703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-02840-9; 9786613028402; 0-230-30391-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2011.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Collana: Gender and Politics, , 2662-5814
• Disciplina: 351.01
• Soggetti: Political science; Sociology; Comparative politics; Political theory; Political philosophy; Political sociology; Political Science; Gender Studies; Comparative Politics; Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Political Sociology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-223) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Gender, Politics, and Institutions; 2 Gender and Institutions of Political Recruitment: Candidate Selection in Post-Devolution Scotland; 3 Discursive Strategies for Institutional Reform: Gender Quotas in Sweden and France; 4 Gendered Institutions and Women's Substantive Representation: Female Legislators in Argentina and Chile; 5 Gendering the Institutional Reform of the Welfare State: Germany, the United ; Kingdom, and Switzerland; 6 Gender and Institutions of Multi-Level Governance: Child Care and Social Policy Debates in Canada7 The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy: Comparing the Czech and Slovak Republics; 8 Gendering Federalism: Institutions of Decentralization and Power-Sharing; 9 Gendered Institutionalist Analysis: Understanding Democratic Transitions; 10 Nested Newness and Institutional Innovation: Expanding Gender Justice in the International Criminal Court; 11 Conclusion: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism?; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.