Gender and Informal Institutions

Herausgeber: Waylen, Georgina

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Informal norms and political practices can act to facilitate or block changes to formal rules, with important consequences for efforts to promote gender equality. In this book, leading scholars develop sophisticated analytical frameworks and provide detailed empirical knowledge to further our understanding of the gendering of informal institutions. The book begins by assessing our current theoretical and empirical knowledge and outlining the remaining gaps in our understanding around the way gender interacts with informal institutions. It takes up the challenges of gender equality in informal institutions though a feminist institutionalist lens. The empirically based chapters explore the role of informal institutions in three areas of concern for feminist scholars: political recruitment; the executive; and policy and practice; and examine the practical and methodological challenges of researching informal institutions. Using the insights generated in the volume, the final chapter develops a research agenda for future work on gendering informal institutions, considering the potential to design or alter informal institutions, and of different approaches and methodologies.

Produktdetails

• Feminist Institutionalist Perspectives
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781786600035
• ISBN-10: 178660003X
• Artikelnr.: 45718026

Autorenporträt

Georgina Waylen is a Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Analyzing Gender in Informal Institutions: An Introduction, Georgina
Waylen / 2. What's in a Name? Mapping the Terrain of Informal Institutions
and Gender Politics, Louise Chappell and Fiona Mackay / 3. Local Heroes and
'Cute Hoors': Informal Institutions, Male Over-Representation and Candidate
Selection in the Republic of Ireland, Leah Culhane / 4. AExcavating
Informal Institutional Enforcement Through 'Rapid' Ethnography: Lessons
from the Australian Construction Industry, Louise Chappell and Natalie
Galea / 5. Party Office, Male Homosocial Capital and Gendered Political
Recruitment, Tánia Verge and Sílvia Claveria / 6. Disentangling Informality
and Informal Rules: Explaining Gender Inequality in Chile's Executive
Branch, Susan Franceschet / 7. Leveraging Informality, Rewriting Informal
Rules: The Implementation of Gender Parity in Mexico, Jennifer M. Piscopo /
8. Negotiating Gender Equity in a Clientelist State: the Role of Informal
Networks in Bangladesh, Sohela Nazneen / 9. An "Alternate" Story of Formal
Rules and Informal Institutions: Quota Laws and Candidate Selection in
Latin America, Magda Hinojosa / 10. Who, Where and How? Informal
Institutions and the Third Generation of Research on Gendered Dynamics in
Political Recruitment, Elin Bjarnegård and Meryl Kenny / 11. Conclusion,
Georgina Waylen