This 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.
1. Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas: Resisting
Institutions.-
2. Practices and Strategies of Gender Representations in
Danish Political Parties.-
3. How Gender Quotas Work in Switzerland.-
4.
Nested Newness and Critical Junctures: Quota Implementation Flaws in the
Austrian Party Democracy.-
5. From Party Quotas to Parity? Legislative Gender
Representation in Germany at a Crossroads.-
6. Implementing Special Measures
for Political Representation and Gender in Sweden.-
7. The Implementation of
Equality-Based Candidate Selection Decisions in the British Labour and
Conservative Parties.-
9. 25 Years of Gender Quotas, still a Man's World?
Implementation in the Belgian Case.-
10. Only Stand-ins? Women's
Parliamentary Representation and Quota Implementation in Croatia since 2011.-
11. Twenty Years of Parité under the Microscope in France: parties Play with
rather than by the Rules.-
12. Ireland: Understanding Gender Quotas as a
Stepping-Stone to Gender Transformation and Empowerment.-
13. Gender Quota
and Local Political Parties: Varieties of Implementation in Italy.-
14. The
Least That Could Have Been Done? The Ambiguous Effects of Gender Quotas in
Polish Parliamentary Elections.-
15. Implementing Gender Quotas in Portugal -
a Success Story?.-
16. Legislative Quotas and Political Representation in
Serbia.-
17. Legislative Gender Quotas in Slovenia - Implemented but not
Internalized.-
18. "It's the Party, Stupid!": Success of and Resistance to
Gender Quotas in Spain.
Sabine Lang is Professor of International and European Politics, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA.
Petra Meier is Professor of Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Birgit Sauer is Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria.
