Masculinized or Marginalized: Decentralization and Women's Status in Regional Polish Institutions

Rincker, Meg

doi:10.1080/15544770802367796

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“…More recently, analysts have claimed that decentralizationparticularly in combination with democratic reformspromotes or has the potential to promote women's political advancement (Bryld 2001;Budianta 2006;Rincker 2009). According to such accounts, devolving power and resources to local politicians can be expected to improve both women's political participation and representation.…”

Section: Women's Political Advancement Through Political Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s political pathways in Southeast Asia

Choi

2018

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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While Southeast Asian women's socioeconomic status and formal political rights have improved significantly in recent decades, women remain underrepresented in the region's political institutions, especially at local levels of governance. Although interest in Southeast Asian women's political representation has increased in recent years, our understanding of women's experiences in their pursuit of elected office remains limited. Through a critical reading of the literature on women and politics and an examination of experiences in Southeast Asia, this article highlights gaps between normative theories and elite-biased empirical studies of women's political advancement and the conditions, processes and outcomes observed across several Southeast Asian countries. Drawing on original ethnographic research in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, this article identifies three major pathways by which women in Southeast Asia have sought election and re-election to political office. In so doing, the article highlights the significance of understanding women's varied experiences and suggests an agenda for further research.

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Section: Women's Political Advancement Through Political Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s political pathways in Southeast Asia

Choi

2018

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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“…Empirical research demonstrates some of these disadvantages. Polish women in regional legislatures face a choice of downplaying feminist attitudes to fit in with male leadership or being sidelined as feminist extremists (Rincker 2009) and, in Finland, a ''gender equality illusion'' incorrectly associated the high number of women in elected politics with the accomplishment of gender policy (Holli and Kantola 2007, 97). Parry finds that state WPAs in the United States lack resources and commitment by state officials (2005), and meso-level WPAs, even those under leftist governments, are constrained in assisting women's movements ''in the neoliberal context of state restructuring'' (Sauer 2003), which Teghtsoonian and Chappell confirm has occurred in Canada and Australia (2008).…”

Section: Disadvantages Of Meso-level Institutions For Women Citizensmentioning

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“…But women's numbers remain low, around 10-15 percent, in Podkarpackie, Lubuskie and Świe tokrzyskie (see Supplementary Appendix). Polish women also face masculine gendered regional legislatures in which male legislators view female legislators, and female legislators view themselves, as political outsiders (Rincker 2009). National and regional women's policy agencies emerged in the last decade, but their lack of institutionalization undercuts potential for women's representation.…”

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Politics Close to Home: The Impact of Meso-level Institutions on Women in Politics

Ortbals

Rincker

Montoya

2011

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

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Scholars recognize a worldwide increase in decentralization as well as the prevalence of multilevel governance in Europe. This article examines the advantages and disadvantages that meso-level institutions present for women's political representation in three European Union member-states that are decentralized, unitary states. Using the framework of the triangle of women's empowerment, we ask whether women are represented in meso-level legislatures, women's policy agencies, and women's movements in Italy, Spain, and Poland. We find that gains in meso-level legislatures are slow, but meso-level women's policy agencies and movements provide important access for women to politics. Like scholars studying women and federalism, we conclude that decentralized institutions in unitary states offer both opportunities for and impediments to feminist policy and activism.

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“…Firstly, women might be less likely to win seats at the lower echelons because of the lower proportion of seats won by left-wing parties. Previous research finds that the strength of left-wing parties has a beneficial impact on the level of women's representation at the national (Caul 1999) as well as at the local level (Lijphart 1999;Rincker 2009;Sundström and Stockemer 2015) or the European Parliament (Lühiste and Kenny 2016; Fortin-Rittberger and Rittberger 2015). Social democrats, socialist and green parties are predisposed to promote female candidacies as it is their explicit aim to represent all societal groups (Caul 1999;Jenson 1995;Krook and Childs 2010).…”

Section: The Missing Link: Inter-level Variation Of Party Systemsmentioning

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How Party Systems Shape Local–National Gender Gaps

Fortin-Rittberger¹,

Eder²,

Kroeber³

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Women’s representation is highest in local assemblies in some countries, while others display the largest share of female office-holders at the national level. Drawing on a new data set mapping the representation of women at all four levels of government in Germany during the 2000s, we argue that differences in party system configurations across echelons explain these distinct patterns and provide evidence for this claim. We show that left-wing parties, the main source of female office-holders, perform better at higher echelons, while minor parties and independent representatives, which favour male candidacy, win more seats at the lowest levels of government.

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Masculinized or Marginalized: Decentralization and Women's Status in Regional Polish Institutions

Cited by 19 publications

References 32 publications

Women’s political pathways in Southeast Asia

Women’s political pathways in Southeast Asia

Politics Close to Home: The Impact of Meso-level Institutions on Women in Politics

How Party Systems Shape Local–National Gender Gaps

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