Gender, Politics and Institutions Towards a Feminist Institutionalism

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.

Mona Lena Krook is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St Louis, USA. She is author of Quotas for Women in Politics (2009) and co-editor of Women, Gender, and Politics (2010). Fiona Mackay is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her most recent book is Women, Politics and Constitutional Change (co-authored 2007). She and Mona Lena Krook are founders and co-directors of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (www.femfiin.com).

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.Hašková & 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