Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism (Gender and Politics)

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. Institutions -- the formal and informal 'rules of the game' - profoundly shape political life. Political institutions are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesizes institutionalism and gendered analysis taking a new approach, looking at feminist institutionalism in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change. The collection sets out a new research agenda on gender, politics and institutions Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 13 Notes on Contributors......Page 15 1 Introduction: Gender, Politics, and Institutions......Page 20 2 Gender and Institutions of Political Recruitment: Candidate Selection in Post-Devolution Scotland......Page 40 3 Discursive Strategies for Institutional Reform: Gender Quotas in Sweden and France......Page 61 4 Gendered Institutions and Women’s Substantive Representation: Female Legislators in Argentina and Chile......Page 77 5 Gendering the Institutional Reform of the Welfare State: Germany, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland......Page 98 6 Gender and Institutions of Multi-Level Governance: Child Care and Social Policy Debates in Canada......Page 114 7 The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy: Comparing the Czech and Slovak Republics......Page 131 8 Gendering Federalism: Institutions of Decentralization and Power-Sharing......Page 148 9 Gendered Institutionalist Analysis: Understanding Democratic Transitions......Page 166 10 Nested Newness and Institutional Innovation: Expanding Gender Justice in the International Criminal Court......Page 182 11 Conclusion: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism?......Page 200 References......Page 216 Index......Page 244 "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 poses to contemporary institutionalism." --Colin Hay, Professor of Political Analysis, University of Sheffield, UK "Based on original research, the book shows how institutionalism can benefit from a gendered analysis of power, agency and change. A fascinating and productive synthesis that will be of value to students, scholars and policymakers alike." --Vivien Lowndes, Professor of Local Government Studies, de Montfort University, UK