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Gender and Informal Institutions

Gender and Informal Institutions

Paperback

Series: Feminist Institutionalist Perspectives

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 178660003X
ISBN13: 9781786600035
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jun 26 2017
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Informal norms and political practices can act to facilitate or block changes to formal rules, with important consequences for efforts to promote gender equality. In this book, leading scholars develop sophisticated analytical frameworks and provide detailed empirical knowledge to further our understanding of the gendering of informal institutions.

The book begins by assessing our current theoretical and empirical knowledge and outlining the remaining gaps in our understanding around the way gender interacts with informal institutions. It takes up the challenges of gender equality in informal institutions though a feminist institutionalist lens. The empirically based chapters explore the role of informal institutions in three areas of concern for feminist scholars: political recruitment; the executive; and policy and practice; and examine the practical and methodological challenges of researching informal institutions. Using the insights generated in the volume, the final chapter develops a research agenda for future work on gendering informal institutions, considering the potential to design or alter informal institutions, and of different approaches and methodologies.

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