Gendered Electoral Financing

Author : Ragnhild L. Muriaas,Vibeke Wang,Rainbow Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000020625

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Gendered Electoral Financing by Ragnhild L. Muriaas,Vibeke Wang,Rainbow Murray Pdf

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from six country studies, Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective is the first cross-regional examination of the nexus between money, gender and political recruitment across the world. Money is assumingly one of the greatest barriers to women in the political recruitment process. The financial disadvantage of women is expected to constitute an obstacle for women’s entry into politics everywhere and especially in developing countries where women’s socio-economic status is disproportionately low relative to men’s. This line of reasoning has caused a global upswing in both candidate- and party-directed financial schemes introduced to enhance gender balance in political office. This book develops a typology of different kinds of gendered electoral financing schemes and builds theories about its causes and consequences. By comparing how gendered electoral financing affects political recruitment processes in both established and emerging democracies, the authors identify whether and how the funding mechanisms incentivize a shift in political behavior. Gendered Electoral Financing is a timely, informative and well-written book that does an excellent job of explaining, in language accessible to students and researchers alike, the cost of elections, gender imbalance in political office and the effects of financial incentive mechanisms to increase women’s representation in politics.

Author : Susan J. Carroll,Richard L. Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107729247

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Gender and Elections by Susan J. Carroll,Richard L. Fox Pdf

The third edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, and multifaceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2012 elections. This timely yet enduring volume strikes a balance between highlighting the most important developments for women as voters and candidates in the 2012 elections and providing a more long-term, in-depth analysis of the ways that gender has helped shape the contours and outcomes of electoral politics in the United States. Individual chapters demonstrate the importance of gender in understanding and interpreting presidential elections, presidential and vice-presidential candidacies, voter participation and turnout, voting choices, congressional elections, the political involvement of Latinas, the participation of African American women, the support of political parties and women's organizations, candidate communications with voters, and state elections. Without question, Gender and Elections is the most comprehensive, reliable, and trustworthy resource on the role of gender in US electoral politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1194480063

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Atlas of Electoral Gender Quotas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil,Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman,Syeda Lasna Kabir,M. Mahfuzul Haque
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030360148

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Gender Mainstreaming in Politics, Administration and Development in South Asia by Ishtiaq Jamil,Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman,Syeda Lasna Kabir,M. Mahfuzul Haque Pdf

This book explores and analyzes gender mainstreaming in South Asia. Gender mainstreaming as a concept is about removing disparities between men and women – about equal access to resources, inclusion and participation in the public sphere, representation in government, and empowerment, all with the aim of achieving equal opportunities for men and women in family life, society, administration, politics, and the economy. The challenges of gender mainstreaming in South Asia are huge, especially in the contexts of patriarchal, religious, and caste-based social norms and values. Men’s dominance in politics, administration, and economic activities is distinctly visible. Women have been subservient to the policy preferences of their male counterparts. However, in recent years, more women are participating in politics at the local and national levels, in administration, and in formal economic activities. Have gender equality and equity been ensured in South Asia? This book focuses on how gender-related issues are incorporated into policy formulation and governance, how they have fared, what challenges they have encountered when these policies were put into practice, and their implications and fate in the context of five South Asian countries. The authors have used varied frameworks to analyze gender mainstreaming at the micro and macro levels. Written from public administration and political science perspectives, the book provides an overview of the possibilities and constraints of gender mainstreaming in a region, which is not only diverse in ethnicity and religion, but also in economic progress, political culture, and the state of governance.

Author : Julie Ballington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Campaign funds
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114323129

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Funding of Political Parties and Election Campaigns by Julie Ballington Pdf

This handbook provides a general description of the different models of political finance regulations and analyses the relationship between party funding and effective democracy. The most important part of the book is an extensive matrix on political finance laws and regulations for about 100 countries. Public funding regulations, ceilings on campaign expenditure, bans on foreign donations and enforcing an agency are some of the issues covered in the study. Includes regional studies and discusses how political funding can affect women and men differently, and the delicate issue of monitoring, control and enforcement of political finance laws.

Author : Georgina Waylen,Karen Celis,Johanna Kantola,S. Laurel Weldon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199790838

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The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics by Georgina Waylen,Karen Celis,Johanna Kantola,S. Laurel Weldon Pdf

As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics and shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies. Like the field it represents, the handbook has a broad understanding of what counts as political and is based on a notion of gender that highlights masculinities as well as femininities, thereby moving feminist debates in politics beyond the focus on women. It engages with some of the key aspects of political science as well as important themes in gender and feminist research (such as sexuality and body politics), thereby forging a dialogue between gender studies in politics and mainstream political science. The handbook is organized in sections that look at sexuality and body politics; political economy; civil society; participation, representation and policymaking; institutions, states and governance as well as nation, citizenship and identity. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics contains and reflects the best scholarship in its field.

Author : Mona Lena Krook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199745269

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Quotas for Women in Politics by Mona Lena Krook Pdf

In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than one hundred countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office. Despite the rapid international diffusion of these measures, most research has focused on single countries - or, at most, the presence of quotas within one world region. Consequently, explanations for the adoption and impact of gender quotas derived from one study often contradict with findings from other cases. Quotas for Women in Politics is the first book to address quotas as a global phenomenon to explain their spread and impact in diverse contexts around the world. It is organized around two sets of questions. First, why are quotas adopted? Which actors are involved in quota campaigns, and why do they support or oppose quota measures? Second, what effects do quotas have on existing patterns of political representation? Are these provisions sufficient for bringing more women into politics? Or, does their impact depend on other features of the broader political context? Synthesizing literature on quota policies, this book develops a framework for analyzing the spread of quota provisions and the reasons for variations in their effects. It then applies this framework to examine and compare campaigns for reserved seats in Pakistan and India, party quotas in Sweden and the United Kingdom, and legislative quotas in Argentina and France.

Author : Jennifer L. Lawless,Richard L. Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139490986

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It Still Takes A Candidate by Jennifer L. Lawless,Richard L. Fox Pdf

It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800 'potential candidates' in 2001 and a second survey of more than 2,000 of these same individuals in 2008, Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox find that women, even in the highest tiers of professional accomplishment, are substantially less likely than men to demonstrate ambition to seek elective office. Women are less likely than men to be recruited to run for office. They are less likely than men to think they are qualified to run for office. And they are less likely than men to express a willingness to run for office in the future. This gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time.

Author : Juanita Elias,Adrienne Roberts
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783478842

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Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender by Juanita Elias,Adrienne Roberts Pdf

This Handbook brings together leading interdisciplinary scholarship on the gendered nature of the international political economy. Spanning a wide range of theoretical traditions and empirical foci, it explores the multifaceted ways in which gender relations constitute and are shaped by global politico-economic processes. It further interrogates the gendered ideologies and discourses that underpin everyday practices from the local to the global. The chapters in this collection identify, analyse, critique and challenge gender-based inequalities, whilst also highlighting the intersectional nature of gendered oppressions in the contemporary world order.

Author : Daniela R. Piccio
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789201543

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Party Responses to Social Movements by Daniela R. Piccio Pdf

Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a “participatory revolution” that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties. Through an analysis of new interviews, institutional documents, and a host of other largely unexploited sources, Daniela R. Piccio provides a rich and empirically grounded exploration of the wide-ranging responses to these movements. Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tensions between their respective roles and aims.

Author : Amy Lind
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271045740

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Gendered Paradoxes by Amy Lind Pdf

Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its &“free market&” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country&’s poor, including women&’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women&’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach combining political economy and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the growth of several strands of women&’s activism and identifies how they have helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her analysis of this ambivalent and &“unfinished&” cultural project of modernity in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of various social sectors; women&’s community development initiatives and responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist &“issue networks&” in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist movement.

Author : Susan Franceschet,Mona Lena Krook,Jennifer M. Piscopo
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199830091

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The Impact of Gender Quotas by Susan Franceschet,Mona Lena Krook,Jennifer M. Piscopo Pdf

The Impact of Gender Quotas is a theory-building and comparative exercise in elaborating concepts commonly used to analyze the broad impacts of gender quotas. Using a conceptual framework based upon descriptive, substantive and symbolic dimensions of representation, the book presents case studies from twelve countries in Western Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.

Author : Wanda Parham-Payne
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498513050

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The Intersection of Race and Gender in National Politics by Wanda Parham-Payne Pdf

This book probes the challenges and opportunities faced by black women in the national political arena, paying special attention to the role of the media, campaign finance, and changing U.S. demographics as they relate to those standing at the intersection of race and gender within national politics and in potential pursuit of the U.S. presidency.

Author : Teresa Sacchet,Silvana Mariano,Cássia Maria Carloto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000173246

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Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers by Teresa Sacchet,Silvana Mariano,Cássia Maria Carloto Pdf

Conditional Cash Transfer Programs have been widely used throughout less developed countries to fight poverty and foster socioeconomic development. In Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers, a multidisciplinary group of feminist scholars use survey data analysis, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic and archival research to explore the extent to which Bolsa Familia in Brazil contributes to women ́s autonomy and improves gender relations. Comprised of nine chapters, written by authors from different regions of Brazil, this book captures perspectives from across Brazil to explain these regional social inequalities and provide historical, and up-to-date, insights of this program from a feminist perspective. The authors are able to move beyond conventional feminist knowledge on CCTs, women and gender relations, through considering questions of gender raised in the specialized literature related to Bolsa Familia, and by addressing concerns of intersectional categories such as race, ethnicity, age and geographic location, Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers will be of great interest not only to scholars of Latin American politics, but also to students of development policy, public policy and gender.

Author : Julie Ballington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Elections
ISBN : IND:30000149616942

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Inclusive Electoral Processes by Julie Ballington Pdf