Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment

Abstract

Series Editors: Johanna Kantola, University of Helsinki, Finland and Judith Squires, University of Bristol, UKThis timely new series publishes leading monographs and edited collections from scholars working in the disciplinary areas of politics, international relations and public policy with specific reference to questions of gender. The series showcases cutting-edge research in Gender and Politics, publishing topical and innovative approaches to gender politics. It will include exciting work from new authors and well-known academics and will also publish high-impact writings by practitioners working in issues relating to gender and politics.The series covers politics, international relations and public policy, including gendered engagement with mainstream political science issues, such as political systems and policymaking, representation and participation, citizenship and identity, equality, and women's movements; gender and international relations, including feminist approaches to international institutions, political economy and global politics; and interdisciplinary and emergent areas of study, such as masculinities studies, gender and multiculturalism, and intersectionality.

Intersectional institutions

“…Bjarnegård, 2013;Kenny, 2013). Feminist institutionalism attends to the ways that institutions not only endure (informed by traditional institutionalism) but can also be changed through deliberate political strategies (taken from feminist political science) (Krook and Mackay, 2011).…”

Lawyers, Gender, and Money: Consensus, Closure, and Conflict in the Global Financial Crisis

“…No, women succeed by building a steady string of successes." See Bjarnegård (2009);Dominus (2012). as they put it, transactionally oriented mentors "grant a passport to power or status to people" who would then be inclined to "take no account of how they arrived at their destination."…”

“…Secondly, drawing on feminist institutionalism, I argue that gender norms -defined as standards of behavior associated with sexual difference -can combine with professional values to enable resistance to intellectual consensus. 4 Regarding gender's impact, I posit that where men and women enjoy differing access to professional networks, this can lead them to "position themselves" (Gheradi and Poggio 2001, 247) differently in debates: in short -as Bjarnegård (2009) suggests -while men in patronage networks may be more risk averse, women outside such networks may be more prone to challenge conventional wisdoms.…”

“…On gender in public policy, see Annesley and Gains (2010). On homosocial capital and networks that prize predictability over efficiency, see Bjarnegård (2009).…”

Understanding Institutional Change from a Gender Perspective

“…But as we have seen, non gender scholars interested in understanding institutions have focused much more centrally on informal institutions in the last decade. However although gender scholars have recognized how gendered norms, practices and discourses can constitute as well as undermine formal institutions (such as candidate selection procedures and bureaucracies) and embody masculinities (and femininities) in particular ways this has only recently started to be done within an institutionalist framework (Connell 2002, Bjarnegard 2013, Kenny 2013. Feminist institutionalist scholars have begun to look more explicitly at the 'hidden life of institutions and in particular at the relationship between formal and informal institutions, using some of the ideas put forward by other non gender institutionalist scholars to ask how they might interact together Waylen 2013, Chappell 2014).…”