Nested Newness, Institutional Innovation, and the Gendered Limits of Change

Mackay, Fiona

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“…For instance, Beckwith (2007) demonstrates that a "critical threshold" in terms of numbers can combine with incumbency to enhance the influence of new actors (Beckwith 2007), while Mackay (2014) and Chappell (2002) argue that it is not just temporal "nestedness" that matters, but also the corresponding relationships between institutions within its broader institutional environment that shape opportunities for change. As this study has illustrated, newness requires a multilayered approach, which takes into account the intersection of the new and old in influencing gender justice outcomes.…”

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“…Instead, it points to the importance of the work of Mackay (2014) and other neoinstitutionalists (Goodin 1996) who understand the way in which new institutions are "nested" within a temporal context -and how this "nestedness," where the old and new coexist and interact -shapes the operations and outcomes of new institutional contexts. Instead, it points to the importance of the work of Mackay (2014) and other neoinstitutionalists (Goodin 1996) who understand the way in which new institutions are "nested" within a temporal context -and how this "nestedness," where the old and new coexist and interact -shapes the operations and outcomes of new institutional contexts.…”

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“New,” “Old,” and “Nested” Institutions and Gender Justice Outcomes: A View from the International Criminal Court

Chappell

2014

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W hat difference do new actors and new institutions make to gender justice outcomes? Do new actors working with new institutions have greater opportunities for advancing change in terms of advancing gender equality? Does a lack of incumbency of actors and the provision of new "formal" codified rules provide a clean slate for advancing gender equality claims? This article explores these questions through an examination of the objectives and influence of "new" international feminist legal actors on the design and implementation of the "new" victims' rights and gender justice provisions contained in the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Courts (ICC). The article argues that during its first decade in operation, the ICC has produced mixed outcomes for victims, especially of conflict-related sexual violence. While the influence of new actors and new rules has been reflected positively in some areas, there are also signs that "old" informal gender legacies, arising from the temporal context in which the ICC is "nested" are still in operation, and these have combined to undermine and distort I acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship scheme [FT0991602] in the writing of this article. I would also like to thank Fiona Mackay, Georgina Waylen, and participants at the Gender and Institutional Change Workshop at Manchester University, November 2013, for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. I also appreciate Emily Waller's assistance in preparing the article.

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“New,” “Old,” and “Nested” Institutions and Gender Justice Outcomes: A View from the International Criminal Court

Chappell

2014

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“…Gender equality has, arguably, not been a central feature of these developments, despite strong advocacy from organised feminist campaigning as a constant feature throughout (O'Hagan, 2016a). As a form of disruption, gender budgeting seeks to undo the 'gendered patterning' of political institutions and norms (Mackay, 2014). Promoting this new and potentially transformative approach to public policy decision-making was, and arguably still is, an attempt to interrupt the traditional norms of economic decision-making to achieve more gender equal outcomes instead.…”

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Gender budgeting in Scotland: A work in progress

O’Hagan

2017

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After almost twenty years of devolved government in Scotland, during which gender analysis of the budget process has been advocated, this article explores the discursive framing of gender budgeting and progress towards implementation. Charting historical and conceptual developments, from feminist economics and feminist institutionalist perspectives, the article highlights the significance of engaged political, civil society and policy actors; the need for clear conceptual framing; and the time it has taken for limited progress to embed. Conscious of financial constraints and economic commitments, including an ambitious extension of publicly funded childcare, the discussion highlights the positive advances in integrating gender equality into economic analysis. It offers insight into the institutional arrangements and advocacy that have maintained pressure for the Scottish budget process to be subject to effective scrutiny and to function as a key driver of gender equality.

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“…Unless each person in the equation changes, then the culture cannot change. The words that Bloem uses -partner and participator -are powerful when challenging old habits, and countering "such mechanisms as 'remembering the old' and 'forgetting the new', that resist change" [7].…”

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Adventures with Parkinson's: Empowering Parkinson's Patients to Become Active Partners in Research and Treatment

2017

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The relationship between people with Parkinson's and regenerative medicine is often ambiguous. As people with Parkinson's, we raise funds for research, we raise awareness of the condition and of the work to understand and hence slow, stop or cure it; but we are no longer seduced by the prospect of an imminent miracle cure. A recent paper by Barker et al. [1] concludes that "as the ability to make authentic mid-brain dopaminergic neurons from stem cell sources improves, so does the reality of a first-in-human clinical trial in patients with PD. [But] only too often are exaggerated claims made, based on limited pre-clinical data and the desire to pass the financial and regulatory hurdles needed to get to clinic". As patients, we cannot live without the hope of a life well and positively lived. This paper explores how we approach this, and the role that we play in supporting regenerative medical research. We also extend an invitation to the regenerative medicine research community to continue and deepen this conversation.In his 2011 Maastrich TEDx [2] talk "From God to Guide", and his 2016 Edinburgh Parkinson's Lecture, "The Future of Parkinson Care" [3], Professor Baastian Bloem sets out the principles of participatory medicine, in which Parkinson's patients, researchers and healthcare professionals work together. In this article, we outline how the Edinburgh Parkinson's community: people with Parkinson's, including us as authors, our families and friends, have for some time now been becoming "part of the participatory process". We set out the what, how and why of moving individually and as a community, from being passive recipients of our healthcare, to being instead active collaborators involved in partnership with clinicians and researchers. In the words of the Dalai Lama [4], we are recognizing that our long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone in the Parkinson's community and beyond into the wider society. Throughout this article, we use the convention People with Parkinson's (PwP) to mean people or person with Parkinson's -for example both the singular and the plural according to meaning in situ.Education is at the heart of everything the Edinburgh Parkinson's community is doing. We are educating ourselves as lay people in all aspects of Parkinson's and cutting-edge research into the condition. We are educating our health professionals, researchers and students about the lived experience of Parkinson's (this last with interesting and far-reaching research consequences for regenerative medicine, explored below). We are learning how to develop a quality of living that goes far beyond whatever our physical symptoms -or those of our care partners -might be at any given time, and sharing that knowledge and insight too with our health professionals.The article introduces a wide range of activities provided by the Edinburgh Branch (nested within the wider context of Parkinson's UK) and examines how each activity contributes to and enhances the others, bringing very real benefits to everyone inv...

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Nested Newness, Institutional Innovation, and the Gendered Limits of Change

Cited by 162 publications

References 40 publications

“New,” “Old,” and “Nested” Institutions and Gender Justice Outcomes: A View from the International Criminal Court

“New,” “Old,” and “Nested” Institutions and Gender Justice Outcomes: A View from the International Criminal Court

Gender budgeting in Scotland: A work in progress

Adventures with Parkinson's: Empowering Parkinson's Patients to Become Active Partners in Research and Treatment

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