GENER,POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS TOWARDS A FEMINIST INSTITUTIONALISM,MONA LENA KROOK,FIONA MACKAY

Foreword-- J.Lovenduski Introduction: Gender, Politics, and Institutions: Setting the Agenda-- F.Mackay & M.L.Krook Gender and Institutions of Political Recruitment: Candidate Selection in Post-Devolution Scotland-- M.Kenny Discursive Strategies for Institutional Reform: Gender Quotas in Sweden and France-- L.Freidenvall & M.L.Krook Gendered Institutions and Women's Substantive Representation: Female Legislators in Argentina and Chile-- S.Franceschet Gendering the Institutional Reform of the Welfare State: Germany, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland-- M.Beyeler & C.Annesley Gender and Institutions of Multi-Level Governance: Child Care and Social Policy Debates in Canada-- J.Grace The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy: Comparing the Czech and Slovak Republics-- H.HaA!kova & S.Saxonberg Gendering Federalism: Institutions of Decentralization and Power-Sharing-- J.Vickers Gendered Institutionalist Analysis: Understanding Democratic Transitions-- G.Waylen Nested Newness and Institutional Innovation: Expanding Gender Justice in the International Criminal Court-- L.Chappell Conclusion: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism?-- F.Mackay Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change. Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of community and the gendered limits of change