Conclusions: state feminism and political representation

Lovenduski, Joni; Baudino, Claudie; Guadagnini, Marila; Meier, Petra; Sainsbury, Diane

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“…Caul Kittilson (2006 : 60-66) a déjà démontré que la présence de femmes au sein des élites des partis se traduisait par des effets positifs sur la représentation législative des femmes. Plusieurs études ont aussi mis au jour l'importance que le mouvement des femmes se mobilise sur le terrain électoral afin d'accroître le nombre des femmes parlementaires (Matland 2003 ; voir la série d'études de cas dans Lovenduski et al 2005). Rule (1987) va même jusqu'à soutenir qu'une telle mobilisation peut constituer un contrepoids à la résistance plus marquée qu'offrent certains modes de scrutin à l'élection de femmes : « [n]egative electoral system features have been overcome by women's political mobilization » (p. 495).…”

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Des femmes candidates dans des circonscriptions compétitives: L'exemple du Québec

Tremblay

2008

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Des femmes candidates dans des circonscriptions compétitives: L'exemple du Québec

Tremblay

2008

Swiss Political Sci Review

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“…The literature on state feminism has shown that the analysis of gender equality bodies and their functioning is a key starting point for understanding which factors might favor more gender-equal outcomes. Most of the authors agree on the factors identified, although they emphasize different ones in their conclusions: the structural conditions of the equality machinery (Rai 2003), the broader context (Htun and Weldon 2010;Mazur 2002), or the type of alliances between the women's policy agency and the feminist movement (Haussman and Sauer 2007;Lovenduski 2005;Mazur 2002;McBride and Mazur 2010;Outshoorn 2004).…”

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Three Decades of State Feminism and Gender Equality Policies in Multi-governed Spain

Bustelo

2014

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Spain's evolution from an authoritarian regime to a well-established multi-governed democracy in a short period of time, has been accompanied by incredibly rapid social change and a varied (depending on the governmental period), but overall steady, consideration of gender equality as a political priority. This has also led to the rapid development and consolidation of women's and equality machineries-state feminism-and well-established policies devoted to promoting gender equality over the last three decades, both at national and regional governmental levels. This article aims to present a consolidated policy area which has enough elements to survive and to keep on developing, although in an increasingly fragmented manner, among regions, despite the ongoing economic crisis and the conservative political turn. Based on theories of state feminism and discursive politics, this article analyzes four important elements for understanding this claim and the evolution of national and regional Spanish gender policies and institutions during the last three decades: women's machinery, the relations between that machinery and women's and feminist movements, the policy discourses present in gender equality policies, and the policy instruments used by those machineries and policies.

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“…As a result gender scholars often incorporated formal institutions, as well as informal practices and norms, in their explanations of the interactions between social movements, political parties, and the state (for example Banaszak et al, 2003;Mazur, 2003;Lovenduski, 2005;Outshoorn and Kantola, 2007). Feminists exposed the gendered nature of public and political institutions and how they help to reflect, reinforce and constitute unequal and intersecting (gendered) power relations in wider society (Randall 1987, Acker 1992.…”

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Understanding Institutional Change from a Gender Perspective

Waylen¹

2014

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Many institutionalist scholars, and historical institutionalists in particular, have recognised for some time that our understanding of institutional change needs to be improved. Taking this premise as its starting point, this working paper develops it by arguing that we not only need to understand institutional change better but that we also need to improve our understanding of how it is gendered. The paper brings together key elements from institutional analysis with recent gender and politics scholarship, to form an analytical framework that can be used to examine how different instances of institutional change are gendered. After exploring the gaps in current analyses, the paper outlines some key insights from historical institutionalism (and particularly from Mahoney and Thelen's 2010 framework) as well as feminist institutionalism, delineating some different forms of institutional change and developing some key themes for each one that might enable us to better understand not only how each is gendered, but also how far each form might be used by change actors as a gender equity strategy. The working paper ends with a plea for further research to discern the utility of these concepts and framework.

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Conclusions: state feminism and political representation

Cited by 29 publications

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Des femmes candidates dans des circonscriptions compétitives: L'exemple du Québec

Des femmes candidates dans des circonscriptions compétitives: L'exemple du Québec

Three Decades of State Feminism and Gender Equality Policies in Multi-governed Spain

Understanding Institutional Change from a Gender Perspective

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