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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792989803321

Autore

Waylen Georgina

Titolo

Gender and informal institutions / / Georgina Waylen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-78660-003-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Collana

Feminist Institutionalist Perspectives

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Feminism - Political aspects

Social institutions

Social networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Gender and Informal Institutions -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1 Analysing Gender in Informal Institutions: An Introduction -- 2 What's in a Name? Mapping the Terrain of Informal Institutions and Gender Politics -- 3 Local Heroes and 'Cute Hoors': Informal Institutions, Male Over-Representation and Candidate Selection in the Republic of Ireland -- 4 Excavating Informal Institutional Enforcement through 'Rapid' Ethnography: Lessons from the Australian Construction Industry -- 5 Party Office, Male Homosocial Capital and Gendered Political Recruitment -- 6 Disentangling Informality and Informal Rules: Explaining Gender Inequality in Chile's Executive Branch -- 7 Leveraging Informality, Rewriting Formal Rules: The Implementation of Gender Parity in Mexico -- 8 Negotiating Gender Equity in a Clientelist State: The Role of Informal Networks in Bangladesh -- 9 An 'Alternate' Story of Formal Rules and Informal Institutions: Quota Laws and Candidate Selection in Latin America -- 10 Who, Where and How? Informal Institutions and the Third Generation of Research on Gendered Dynamics in Political Recruitment -- Conclusions -- Index -- Author Biographies.

Sommario/riassunto

The book takes up the challenges of gender equality in informal institutions though a feminist institutionalist lens.