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Book SynopsisBuilding upon the body of existing literature that has established the importance of norms in understanding why genders interact with social phenomena differently, and how gender plays a role in most aspects of corruption, this cutting-edge book expands the fields to explore the nexus between norms, gender and corruption.
Making a timely and innovative contribution to all three streams of research, the book dives deeper into the role of norms in understanding the relationship between gender and corruption. An international, multidisciplinary group of experts combine global qualitative, in-depth case studies with large scale quantitative analysis to demonstrate the complementary use of different methods in the fields of gender, norms and corruption. Considering gendered differences in attitudes towards, and experiences of, corruption, the chapters examine political and institutional participation in corruption, looking closely at gender representation, stereotypes, and norms-based barriers. Analysing norms from different perspectives, with the main focus on social norms, this forward-thinking book makes a convincing case for why norms should be included in the research agenda on gender and corruption.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this insightful book will prove invaluable to students and scholars of gender politics, social policy and sociology, and law, regulation and governance. It will also prove a useful reference guide to policymakers concerned with the relationship between gender and corruption.
Trade Review‘I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the complex relationship between gender equality, corruption and good governance. It clearly shows that the inclusion of women in positions of power is no “quick fix” to reduced levels of corruption. The chapters give new insights on how social and political norms specify the room open for women to maneuver in society.’ -- Lena Wängnerud, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
'This excellent collection is a much-needed inquiry into still relatively unexplored debates around gender and corruption. Spanning many countries and different types of corruption, and furthering conceptual clarity as well as offering empirical case studies, the book is a must-read for anti-corruption scholars and practitioners.' -- Elizabeth David-Barrett, University of Sussex, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Preface xvi 1 Introduction. Gender and corruption: the role of norms 1 Ina Kubbe and Ortrun Merkle 2 Type matters! Why we need to stop overgeneralizing results: a closer look at gender, norms, and corruption 25 M. Jamie-Lee Campbell 3 Gender norms and firms’ corruption: evidence from China 45 Chengyu Fu 4 Gender differences in the prioritization of corruption as the most important problem in the US, 1939–2015 60 T. Murat Yildirim 5 Unpacking the link between gender and injunctive norms on corruption using survey data: a multilevel analysis of 30 European countries 78 Giulia M. Dotti Sani and Simona Guglielmi 6 Gendering women’s political representation and good governance in the EU? A feminist approach against informal norms of corruption 99 Digdem Soyaltin-Colella and F. Melis Cin 7 Women held back: the depressing effect of institutional and norms-based barriers on female representation in corrupt contexts 120 Gustavo Diaz and Kelly Senters Piazza 8 Gender stereotypes and corruption in devolved systems of government: evidence from local governments in Kenya 139 Justa Mwangi, Wilson Muna and Gitile Naituli 9 The impact of corruption on gender in Central and Eastern Europe: how corruption challenges women’s life 159 Liljana Cvetanoska and Ina Kubbe 10 Gender perspective in justice systems: comparative analysis of the Brazilian, Spanish and German realities on corruption cases 183 Denise Neves Abade and Katharina Miller 11 Sustaining the patriarchal bargain in Morocco: the normalization of Moroccan gendered judicial corruption 213 Ginger R. Feather 12 Wasta and economic opportunities: the case of Palestinian men and women in the West Bank 239 Chloe Laurence Cohen 13 Sextortion: corruption shaped by gender norms 253 Elin Bjarnegård, Dolores Calvo, Åsa Eldén, and Silje Lundgren 14 Moving forward: including norms in the research agenda on gender and corruption 269 Ortrun Merkle and Ina Kubbe Index
