Power-sharing: A gender intervention

McCulloch, Allison

doi:10.1177/0192512119861021

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“…Marginalisation takes the form of exclusion of ideas as well as of representation. As Allison McCulloch (2020) writes, ‘even if included, [women’s] priorities continue to butt up against resilient gender norms and tropes’. Feminist scholarship highlights the gendered nature of peace deals and the marginalisation of gender issues (Byrne, 2020; Deiana, 2016; Kennedy et al, 2016).…”

Section: Inclusive Constitutional Debate and Conflict To Peace Transi...mentioning

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Constitutional inclusion in divided societies: Conceptual choices, practical dilemmas and the contribution of the grassroots in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

McEvoy¹,

Todd²

2023

Cooperation and Conflict

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Processes of constitutional discussion increasingly invite widespread popular inclusion and participation. Conceptual and practical problems remain, not least the respects in which inclusion is to take place. In deeply divided places, these challenges are intensified, first in the difficulties of conceptualising inclusion, and second in the practical dangers participation may pose to peace. We tackle these problems empirically by looking at a hard case of constitutional discussion amid division: the re-emergence of debate about Irish unity in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Through focus groups and interviews, we explore how ‘others’, disengaged from the main political groups and defined transversally, approach the discussion, showing that they welcome the prospect of participation and seek to remove discursive triggers of conflict by focussing on shared everyday experience. We discuss the implications for the constitutional process and the likely impact on polarisation. The analysis has implications for the literature on divided societies, for constitutional theory and for policy. We argue that it is both possible and desirable to remedy group exclusion while facilitating universalistic discussion and lessening the dangers of polarisation. The policy implications are quite radical.

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Section: Inclusive Constitutional Debate and Conflict To Peace Transi...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Constitutional inclusion in divided societies: Conceptual choices, practical dilemmas and the contribution of the grassroots in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

McEvoy¹,

Todd²

2023

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…It inhibits “effective political representation for those whose primary political identities do not align with the societal divisions it seeks to ameliorate” (Kennedy et al, 2016: 619). Specifically, when fragmentation follows ethnic lines and ethnicity is determined according to a patriarchal logic, this negatively affects the level of women's representation (McCulloch, 2020) .…”

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Women's Descriptive Representation in Burundi: The Mixed Effects of Gender Quotas

Ndayiragije,

Vandeginste,

Meier

2023

Africa Spectrum

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Building on original data collected for the period between 2001 and 2020, this article contributes to the research on the effectiveness of gender quotas. It does so, first, by looking into the salience of ministerial portfolios allocated to women, and, secondly, by examining the spillover effect of the gender quotas in positions where they do not apply. We find that the implementation of gender quotas gradually resulted in women being assigned to high-salience ministerial portfolios. Also, gender quotas have produced mixed results in positions where they are not mandated. These findings can be explained mobilising a multi-perspectival argument that takes into account the history of gender quotas adoption in Burundi, the specific political context of their implementation, as well as an interpersonal resources perspective.

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“…Both Allison McCulloch (McCulloch, this issue) and Siobhan Byrne (Byrne, this issue), for instance, consider how women as a constituency have been largely excluded from power-sharing arrangements. While they chart different strategies for minimising the EAI dilemma for women, both authors challenge the view that a gender perspective is necessarily at odds with power-sharing practices.…”

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How power-sharing includes and excludes non-dominant communities: Introduction to the special issue

Agarin

McCulloch

2019

International Political Science Review

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As the introduction to the special issue titled Democratisation in Divided Places: Designing Power-Sharing Institutions for Broad Inclusion, this article situates the themes, issues, and findings of the issue in a broad disciplinary perspective. Drawing from theories of constitutional design, peacebuilding, democratisation, and ethnonational accommodation, the article outlines the trade-offs that power-sharing faces in war-to-peace transitions and the implications for non-dominant groups. We articulate what we see as a central problem with contemporary power-sharing arrangements, a phenomenon we call the ‘exclusion amid inclusion’ dilemma. That is, for power-sharing to create stability and pacify the dominant groups, it must marginalise non-dominant groups. These are groups who were neglected in the original design of power-sharing institutions, who remain on the sidelines of postconflict politics, and who face major institutional constraints on their representation and participation in the power-sharing arrangement. Using ‘exclusion amid inclusion’ as an analytical lens, we explain how the articles included in the special issue highlight how different societies have grappled with the question of facilitating broad inclusion in the design of political power-sharing institutions.

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Power-sharing: A gender intervention

Cited by 12 publications

References 38 publications

Constitutional inclusion in divided societies: Conceptual choices, practical dilemmas and the contribution of the grassroots in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

Constitutional inclusion in divided societies: Conceptual choices, practical dilemmas and the contribution of the grassroots in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

Women's Descriptive Representation in Burundi: The Mixed Effects of Gender Quotas

How power-sharing includes and excludes non-dominant communities: Introduction to the special issue

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