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Book SynopsisIn her probing book, Empowered by Design, Meg Rincker asks, Under what conditions will decentralization lead to women's empowerment in countries around the globe? Using three case studiesthe United Kingdom, Poland, and Pakistanshe shows how decentralization reforms create new institutional offices as power shifts from the national level to a meso-tier level, which is located between the national government and local municipalities. These shifts impact a country's political, administrative, and fiscal reforms as well as women's representation.Rincker argues that this shiftshouldbe inclusive of womenor at least lead more women to participate in institutionsbut this is not always the case.She indicates that three conditions, the gender policy trifecta, need to be met to achieve this: legislative gender quotas, women's policy agencies, and gender-responsive budgeting at the level of governance in question.Rincker'sinnovative research uses original comparative data about what women want, qu
