Gender, Institutions and Political Representation : Reproducing Male Dominance in Europe's New Democracies / Cristina Chiva.
2017
JA84.E9
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Title
Gender, Institutions and Political Representation : Reproducing Male Dominance in Europe's New Democracies / Cristina Chiva.
Author
Chiva, Cristina.
ISBN
9781137011770 (electronic book)
1137011777 (electronic book)
1137011769
9781137011763
1137011777 (electronic book)
1137011769
9781137011763
Publication Details
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
JA84.E9
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.5094
Summary
Traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout the region. Post-communist Europe has long raised two puzzles for scholars of women's representation in politics. First, why have women been under-represented in politics in every country in the region since communism's collapse? Secondly, why are there relatively few cases where women's advocates have been successful in pressing for change? This comparative study of Europe's new democracies argues that these puzzles are best understood as questions about male dominance - that is, about the mechanisms that sustain, or, alternatively, change long-established patterns of male over-representation in politics over time.
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Traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout the region. Post-communist Europe has long raised two puzzles for scholars of women's representation in politics. First, why have women been under-represented in politics in every country in the region since communism's collapse? Secondly, why are there relatively few cases where women's advocates have been successful in pressing for change? This comparative study of Europe's new democracies argues that these puzzles are best understood as questions about male dominance - that is, about the mechanisms that sustain, or, alternatively, change long-established patterns of male over-representation in politics over time.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gender and politics.
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