Gender, Institutions and Power: A Critical Review

Kenny, Meryl

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9256.2007.00284.x

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“…(3) The literature on feminist institutionalism is a further imperative underpinning the need for the present work (cf. Kenny, 2007). This relates to how contemporary institutions remain highly gendered in terms of access to power and resources.…”

Section: Contribution To Civil Society Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered political space: civil society, contingency theory, and the substantive representation of women

Chaney

2016

Journal of Civil Society

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Whilst existing civil society studies generally fail to systematically examine the way that contextual factors shape women's representation in the civil sphere, political science has predominantly focused on legislative settings. This article responds to the resultant knowledge-gap by examining the hitherto underexplored role of civil society as a political space integral to the substantive representation of women (SRW)-or, the process by which women's concerns are advanced in policy and politics. The article uses grounded theory in order propose a systematic analytical model showing how the SRW is a contingent process whereby the motives of civil society organizations are translated into action repertoires shaped by three (non-discrete) spheres: political, socioeconomic, and organizational. Its wider contribution to civil society scholarship is in highlighting how civil society is a complex, heterogeneous political space wherein SRW claims-making requires cognizance of the co-presence of contingent factors that offer immanent explanatory power.

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Section: Contribution To Civil Society Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered political space: civil society, contingency theory, and the substantive representation of women

Chaney

2016

Journal of Civil Society

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“…Feminist institutionalism (FI) significantly adds to NI analysis by theorizing and researching the ways in which formal and informal rules are gendered (Kenny 2007;Krook and Mackay 2011;Chappell and Waylen 2013).…”

Section: Rules Power and Gendermentioning

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“…Drawing on the theoretical contributions of feminist institutionalists (Kenny 2007, Krook and Mackay 2011, Chappell and Waylen 2013, the article makes the case that women's access to ministerial office is best explained by the way these complexes of rules distribute power unequally between men and women. It also shows how rule change in these three complexes have and could improve women's chances of securing ministerial office.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rules of Ministerial Recruitment

Annesley

2015

Pol & Gen

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Women's recruitment to ministerial office is improving, but our understanding of what determines women's access to cabinet remains underdeveloped. Comparative studies explain women's ministerial presence through correlations with country-level socio-economic or political factors. This research uses a feminist institutionalist approach to explain gendered access to cabinets. It uses original data from interviews with former ministers and special advisors to map the rules in use of ministerial recruitment. It demonstrates that that women's access to ministerial office is facilitated and constrained by three complexes of predominantly informal rules which structure: who is eligible to be chosen (the eligibility pool); how to qualify (specialist or generalist principles); and who selects ministers (the prime minister or the party). By examining the rules of ministerial recruitment in two Westminster democracies, Australia and the UK, the research demonstrates the differences that exist, even in most similar cases, at system level, at party levels, and over time. By identifying the specific complexes of rules which shape women's access it is possible to identify the rule changes which have been effective in improving women's ministerial opportunities and suggest future reform strategies which would be most effective in the specific context.

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“…There is much apparent common ground and common cause between FPS and SI approaches (Kenny 2007;Mackay and Meier 2003). Both share a predominantly social constructionist approach to the analysis of institutions and actors and to the broader social context in which these are constituted.…”

Section: Feminist Political Science and Sociological Institutionalismmentioning

confidence: 99%