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Women and Representation in Local Government : International Case Studies.
Women and Representation in Local Government opens up an opportunity to critique and move beyond suppositions and labels in relation to women in local government. Presenting a wealth of new empirical material, this book brings together international experts to examine and compare the presence of wom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Women and Representation in Local Government International case studies; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Gender and municipal politics: problems, perspectives and possibilities; PART I Women's representation in local government: Facilitators and constraints; 2 Moving through the pipeline: women's representation in municipal government in the New England region of the United States; 3 Women in local assemblies
- rare guests or (almost) equal partners? An analysis of the causes of women's under-representation in the German county councils.
- PART II Strategies to increase women's representation in local government4 Women and local politics in Spain: exploring gender regimes and biased party candidate selection processes; 5 Making it happen in practice: organized efforts to recruit rural women for local government leadership; 6 Missing from the picture: women's initiatives in English local government; PART III Making a difference? The descriptive and substantive representation of women in local government; 7 How gender shapes local party politics: the case of Belgium.
- 8 Critical acts and critical contexts: understanding the substantive representation of women at the regional level in France9 Transforming local politics? The impact of gender quotas in Finland; PART IV Gender and a changing local government sector; 10 Gendering local government amalgamations: an Australian case study; 11 Women in New Zealand local government: the effect of reform on women's presence in leadership; 12 New public management and gender in Swedish local government; Index.