Gender and Informal Institutions (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Feminist Institutionalist Perspectives
Release date:	May 2017
Editors:	Georgina Waylen
Dimensions:	238 x 158 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-78660-002-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
LSN:	1-78660-002-1
Barcode:	9781786600028

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