Understanding Policy Diffusion across Feminist Social Movements: The Case of Gender Mainstreaming in Eastern Germany

Guenther, Katja

doi:10.1017/s1743923x08000470

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“…All three mechanisms of diffusion, relational, nonrelational, and mediated diffusion are consistent with the three categories of mechanisms that McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly identify for social movements and other forms of contentious politics: environmental, cognitive, and relational mechanisms (McAdam et al 2001: 25-26; for environmental and cognitive variables see also Guenther 2008); the latter two of these three mechanisms are particularly relevant here. Environmental mechanisms are broader trends that shape the context in which social movements mobilize.…”

Section: Actors and Pathways Of Diffusion Processessupporting

confidence: 73%

“…Internal variables include the level of cohesion within the movement to which an idea or practice diffuses, and the presence within a movement of ''credible articulators,'' individual champions of the diffusing idea who enjoy credibility and are respected. External variables include the general political climate of the locale to which an idea diffuses and the responsiveness of public officials to the claims of a social movement (Guenther 2008). Other external or environmental factors that affect diffusion include political conditions and the level of compatibility of a diffusing idea or practice with the adopter's culture.…”

Section: Conditions Facilitating Diffusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding the Transnational Diffusion of Social Movements

Shawki

2013

Humanity & Society

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This article focuses on the transnational diffusion of social movement ideas. How do social movements in one country or region of the world diffuse to another country or region? How do social movement participants learn about other movements and ideas in faraway countries and mobilize around these same ideas? What are the channels and mechanisms of diffusion? These are the research questions the article addresses. I draw on the theoretical literature on social movements and recent research on diffusion to explore these questions. The discussion is applied to two recent cases of diffusion: The diffusion of the Transition movement from the United Kingdom to the United States and the diffusion of the solidarity economy movement from Latin America, France, and Canada to the United States. I argue that a combination of relational, nonrelational, and mediated diffusion explain the spread of the transition and solidarity economy movements. The article contributes to the literature on social movements in two ways. First, it contributes to the recent efforts to better understand the process of diffusion of social movements and their ideas.

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Section: Actors and Pathways Of Diffusion Processessupporting

confidence: 73%

Section: Conditions Facilitating Diffusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Transnational Diffusion of Social Movements

Shawki

2013

Humanity & Society

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“…In 1997 the Amsterdam Treaty "constitutionalised" the strategy through directives to member states concerning discrimination in relation to gender, race, disability, sexuality and religious belief (Mazey, 2002;Guenther, 2008). The areas of intervention highlighted in EU gender mainstreaming -economic activity, participation and representation, social rights, civil life and gender roles and stereotypes -are not specifically health-related, although all impact on opportunities for health (Mazey, 2002).…”

Section: Gender Mainstreaming In Health: the Development And Translatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender mainstreaming as a global policy paradigm: barriers to gender justice in health

Payne

2014

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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This paper explores gender mainstreaming in the context of health policy and health variations between women and men. Despite the adoption of gender mainstreaming at international, regional and national scales since the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995, gender inequalities in health persist. The paper argues that the translation of gender mainstreaming as a global policy paradigm across and between policy scales has significance for health policies aiming to address gender. The paper suggests that while gender mainstreaming originated to address women's needs, the paradigm is founded on goals that do not translate in health policy; that the representation of the problem of gender in this global paradigm is problematic in a health context; and that the role of global networks in policy translation as part of this paradigm has led to the replacement of transformative ideals with technocratic solutions which shift the focus away from gender relations of power.

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“…As previously shown, myths are embedded within the discourse of gender mainstreaming when Sweden is discussed in the investigated articles. I now continue by illustrating the perceived success of the institutionalization of gender mainstreaming in state administration at national, regional and local level, as it is articulated in the selected material (Guenther, 2008; Rubery et al, 2004; Zebrachi, 2014). One of the themes in the success discourse is that gender mainstreaming strategies have been established on all levels.…”

Section: Integrationmentioning

confidence: 98%

The myth of Sweden’s success: A deconstructive reading of the discourses in gender mainstreaming texts

Andersson

2017

European Journal of Women's Studies

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This article investigates discourses of Sweden's success in gender mainstreaming. Using the theoretical concept of myth, discourse analysis is performed on different categories of texts (including academic texts, grey papers and official reports). The aim is to analyse how this discourse of success is constructed and to increase the understanding of its components. The themes identified in the reading include adaptation, integration, volume and initiatives. In conclusion, it is argued that a conflation of gender mainstreaming (viewed as a strategy) with gender equality (as a policy objective) has been a vital part of the construction of Sweden as the best case of gender mainstreaming.

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Understanding Policy Diffusion across Feminist Social Movements: The Case of Gender Mainstreaming in Eastern Germany

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

Understanding the Transnational Diffusion of Social Movements

Understanding the Transnational Diffusion of Social Movements

Gender mainstreaming as a global policy paradigm: barriers to gender justice in health

The myth of Sweden’s success: A deconstructive reading of the discourses in gender mainstreaming texts

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