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Book SynopsisThis edited collection explores how party politics impacts the implementation of gender quotas in political representation across Europe. Contributors identify actors, institutions, and cultural legacies shape how quotas are put into practice. The volume’s subtitle, Resisting Institutions, points to the myriad ways in which parties and other institutions in Europe over time have resisted the inclusion of women into politics. As voluntary party quotas and legislative quotas gained prominence, so did strategies to undermine them. At the same time, Resisting Institutions also indicates that gender equality actors have developed ways to counter such blockages and advance the cause of parity in their legislatures. 17 country cases explore the current state of quota implementation and the effects of confronting androcentric institutions.
Table of Contents1. Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions (Sabine Lang, Peter Meier and Birgit Sauer)
Part I. No or Informalized Quotas2. Practices and Strategies of Gender Representations in Danish Political Parties (Lise Rolandson Agustin, Christina Fiig & Birte Siim)
3. How Gender Quotas Work in Switzerland (Gesine Fuchs)
Part II. Party Quotas4. Nested Newness and Critical Junctures: Quota Implementation Flaws in the Austrian Party Democracy (Katja Chmilewski & Birgit Sauer)
5. From Party Quotas to Parity? Legislative Gender Representation in Germany at a Crossroads (Petra Ahrens & Sabine Lang)
6. Implementing Special Measures for Political Representation and Gender in Sweden (Lenita Freidenvall)
7. The Implementation of Equality-Based Candidate Selection Decisions in the British Labour and Conservative Parties (Jeanette Ashe, Rosie Campbell, Sarah Childs & Joni Lovenduski)
Part III. Legislative Quotas9. 25 Years of Gender Quotas, still a Man's World? Implementation in the Belgian Case (Silvia Erzeel, Petra Meier & Audrey Vandeleene)
10. Only Stand-ins? Women's Parliamentary Representation and Quota Implementation in Croatia since 2011 (Marjeta Šinko)
11. Twenty Years of Parité under the Microscope in France: parties Play with rather than by the Rules (Catherine Achin, Sandrine Lévêque & Amy Mazur)
12. Ireland: Understanding Gender Quotas as a Stepping-Stone to Gender Transformation and Empowerment (mary Brennan, Fiona Buckley & Yvonne Galligan)
13. Gender Quota and Local Political Parties: Varieties of Implementation in Italy (Alessia Donà)
14. The Least That Could Have Been Done? The Ambiguous Effects of Gender Quotas in Polish Parliamentary Elections (Barbara Gaweda)
15. Implementing Gender Quotas in Portugal - a Success Story? (Ana Espírito-Santo, Ana Lúcia Teixeira and Maria Helena Santos)
16. Legislative Quotas and Political Representation in Serbia (Lilijana Čičkarić)
17. Legislative Gender Quotas in Slovenia - Implemented but not Internalized (Milica Antić Gaber and Irena Selišnik)
18. "It's the Party, Stupid!": Success of and Resistance to Gender Quotas in Spain (Tània Verge)
