Overview
- Investigates the ‘how’ of recruiting and selecting more women into politics
- Claims that much of the actual potential of policy measures to enhance gender equality depends on their implementation
- Produces innovative comparative knowledge on women’s representation across Europe
Part of the book series: Gender and Politics (GAP)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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No or Informalized Quotas
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Party Quotas
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Legislative Quotas
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About this book
This edited collection explores how party politics impacts the implementation of gender quotas in political representation across Europe. Contributors identify actors, institutions, and cultural legacies shape how quotas are put into practice. The volume’s subtitle, Resisting Institutions, points to the myriad ways in which parties and other institutions in Europe over time have resisted the inclusion of women into politics. As voluntary party quotas and legislative quotas gained prominence, so did strategies to undermine them. At the same time, Resisting Institutions also indicates that gender equality actors have developed ways to counter such blockages and advance the cause of parity in their legislatures. 17 country cases explore the current state of quota implementation and the effects of confronting androcentric institutions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sabine Lang is Professor of International and European Politics, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA.
Petra Meier is Professor of Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Birgit Sauer is Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas
Book Subtitle: Resisting Institutions
Editors: Sabine Lang, Petra Meier, Birgit Sauer
Series Title: Gender and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08931-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08930-5Published: 02 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08933-6Published: 02 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08931-2Published: 01 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-5814
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5822
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 375
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Politics and Gender, Gender Studies, Comparative Politics, Public Policy, Public Administration