Francesca Gains
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4128883 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Francesca Gains |
| NOMBRES | Francesca |
| APELLIDO | Gains |
| FIRMA | GAINS F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9815-3870 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 433 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Redesigning Rules for Participation in Local Governance
Corporatist arrangements in local governance are formal structures designed to incorporate interest groups in decision-making. Local corporatism is often dysfunctional. This may be a result of malign intent. However, where there are good faith actors, what are some conditions under which corporatist structures have been redesigned? Our paper tests theoretical expectations from institutionalist theory. Theory suggests that the dynamics of change a…
Weaponizing women and gender
Whilst there are significant electoral advantages for political parties to target women’s votes, scholarship on recent electoral appeals questions the quality of gendered policy promises to address deep structural gender inequalities existing within the British state. This article examines British Election Study data to identify women voters’ concerns and explores how the two largest Westminster parties developed appeals to women voters in the bu…
Identifying the Institutional Micro-Foundations of Gender Policy Change
A case study of reform in police governance provides an opportunity to examine how the micro-foundations of institutional change impact gender policy. The literature has established an association between institutional transformation and opportunities for gender policy change. It is clear that new actors and new rules are significant, but less is known about their interaction. Elinor Ostrom's concept of “rules-in-use” captures rules and their ena…
What did the coalition government do for women? An analysis of gender equality policy agendas in the UK 2010–2015
Gender, actors, and institutions at the local level
Research on gender equality policy has generally focused on actors and institutions at the national and international levels. This article considers the role of local‐level actors and institutions in explaining different policy responses to violence against women and girls (VAWG). The literature on gender policy trajectories identifies the particular importance of executive actors in influencing “status policies” like VAWG. Quantitative data are …
The profile of gender equality issue attention in Western E urope
This article investigates the factors that drive governments to pay attention to gender equality issues and place them upon executive agendas. In line with studies of the dynamics of issue attention, which demonstrate the importance of investigating variability in the attention policy makers give to issue demands across policy domains, this article argues that policy issues related to gender equality are multidimensional and patterns in executive…
Metro Mayors
It is quite clear that the devolutionary settlement negotiated between the UK chancellor George Osborne and the leaders of the Greater Manchester Combined Authorities (GMCA) required local political actors to agree to oversight of the new arrangements by an elected metro mayor. In the intervening months since that announcement, governance arrangements for a Greater Manchester (GM) 'metro mayor' have proved to be both unique and fluid, drawing on …
Policy Advocacy in Hard Times
n Contains fulltext :\n 129684.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
How is Institutional Formation Gendered, and Does it Make a Difference? A New Conceptual Framework and a Case Study of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales
How is institutional formation gendered, and does it make a difference? Inspired by new institutionalism's generic claim that “the organisation of political life makes a difference” (March and Olsen 1984), we ask, how does the gendered organization of political life make a difference? The purpose of this article is to build a conceptual framework for understanding the gendered character (and effects) of institutional formation. We test the framew…
Can Cameron Capture Women's Votes? The Gendered Impediments to a Conservative Majority in 2015
Women have traditionally been more likely to vote Conservative than Labour, but the attraction of younger women voters to New Labour contributed to New Labour's winning electoral strategy in 1997 and 2001. Subsequently, the Conservative Party leadership intensified efforts to attract women voters through recruiting more women MPs and in its policy messages and proposals and in 2005 and 2010 the gender gap was largely neutralised. However, in the …
Acceptable Difference
Journal Article ‘Acceptable Difference’: Diversity, Representation and Pathways to UK Politics Get access Catherine Durose, Catherine Durose * 1University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Liz Richardson, Liz Richardson 2University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ryan Comb…
Investigating the Economic Determinants of the UK Gender Equality Policy Agenda
Promoting certain kinds of gender equality—such as promoting and supporting female participation in paid work or male engagement with unpaid care work—is costly. Yet, there has been little examination in gender and policy research of the economic determinants of gendered policy change. In this article we investigate, using graphs and descriptive analysis derived from three data sets, whether the agenda-setting possibilities of feminist policy act…
David Cameron's ‘Problem’ with Women
Prior to the election in 2010 David Cameron pledged that his first cabinet would comprise one‐third women and would be the most family friendly ever. Since forming the Coalition Government, he appears to have a ‘problem’ with women. We argue that this problem stems from: the weak representation of women in cabinet and across government; the diminishing resources available to government actors to support gender equality policy; and women's exclusi…
Elite Ethnographies
This article celebrates Rod Rhodes' use of ethnography to study political elites ‘up close and personal’. Initially Rhodes' work is contextualized within the development of political ethnography more generally, before his ethnographies of ‘Everyday life in a Ministry’ are reviewed, illustrating the potential of ethnography to research policy‐making elites. This review highlights epistemological and ontological questions which link to criticism of…
Special advisers and the transmission of ideas from the policy primeval soup
This article examines the work of ministerial special advisers who play a key but underresearched role in transmitting policy ideas in government. We argue that this focus is necessary to challenge the reification of neoliberalism as an explanatory determinant of policy making. Initially we discuss the literature on the transmission of social science ideas into policy making, contrasting this with a governmentality approach. We then consider the …
Ideas into policy
This themed issue of Policy & Politics explores the role of social science in informing public policy. 1A focus on the relationship between ideas and policy making is timely.Arguably, we have just lived through a time of extensive and sophisticated dialogue between government and the social sciences.In Britain, New Labour broke dramatically with the negative attitude to the social sciences that had characterised the Thatcher and Major governments…
What Do Bureaucrats Like Doing? Bureaucratic Preferences in Response to Institutional Reform
How do bureaucrats respond to administrative reform in relation to their overall administrative goals? The authors test the bureau‐shaping thesis, which holds that bureaucrats’ preferences for certain kinds of roles and tasks motivate their support for bureau reform. Drawing on attitudinal and behavioral data from a survey of English local government officials, the findings underscore how bureaucrats with different interests and motivations sort …
The Core Executive
The core executive is a central focus for the study of policy change especially in Westminster-style parliamentary democracies such as the UK. This venue is recognised as the locus of power and where attention should be given for identifying and assessing the process of policy change. It is surprising, then, that studies on women's substantive representation – showing whether and how women can make a difference to politics and policy – have not e…
Engendering politics and policy
This article analyses the capacity of a single political party – New Labour in the UK – to engender politics and policy. It draws on Kingdon’s (1984) policy streams approach to demonstrate how with the election of New Labour in 1997 a window of opportunity emerged for gender changes in political representation, governance and policy terms. It argues that the commitment to engendering politics was an important step towards engendering policy, but …
Narratives and Dilemmas of Local Bureaucratic Elites
The worlds of local bureaucrats are under researched and under theorized compared with those of civil servants in core executives. Yet local bureaucratic elites, sitting as they do between central states and localities, are key actors in governance networks. In England, the role and responsibilities of local bureaucratic elites has been transformed since the days of professionalized officers heading departmental structures reporting to committees…
Delivering 'Public Value
The possibility that public servants can act to create ‘public value’ offers a popular and potentially liberating normative code for the activity of public managers.1 The adoption of the concept however implies a changed understanding of legitimacy and accountability for policy actions. It is argued this new ‘public service contract’ is likely to be easier to adopt in local settings than in the core executive although in neither case is the adopt…
The Impact of Political Leadership on Organisational Performance
Many commentators view the political management reforms of English local government with some scepticism, raising concerns about the desirability of stronger leadership and the efficacy of institutional reform in encouraging stronger leadership. Using data from a five-year evaluation of the impact of the Local Government Act 2000, this paper reports evidence suggesting that institutional variation does influence the way that organisations operate…
When Do Bureaucrats Prefer Strong Political Principals? Institutional Reform and Bureaucratic Preferences in English Local Government
This article seeks to explain the attitudes of bureaucrats to the redesign of their bureaus by their elected principals. The starting point is a puzzle that a constitutional change in English local government, which was designed to enhance the influence and role of leading local politicians, resulted with bureaucrats as its most enthusiastic champions. The article explores explanations of this response, drawing on the deliberate discretion or pol…
The Profile of Gender Equality Issue Attention in Western Europe
This article investigates the factors which drive governments to pay attention to gender equality issues and place them upon executive agendas. In line with studies of the dynamics of issue attention, which demonstrate the importance of investigating variability in the attention policy makers give to issue demands across policy domains, this article argue that policy issues related to gender equality are multi dimensional and patterns in executiv…
The Logics of Gender Justice
The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women’s Rights Around the World." Gender & Development, 27(3), pp. 601–602
The Core Executive
The core executive is a central focus for the study of policy change especially in Westminster-style parliamentary democracies such as the UK. This venue is recognised as the locus of power and where attention should be given for identifying and assessing the process of policy change. It is surprising, then, that studies on women's substantive representation – showing whether and how women can make a difference to politics and policy – have not e…
Acceptable Difference
Journal Article ‘Acceptable Difference’: Diversity, Representation and Pathways to UK Politics Get access Catherine Durose, Catherine Durose * 1University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Liz Richardson, Liz Richardson 2University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ryan Comb…
How is Institutional Formation Gendered, and Does it Make a Difference? A New Conceptual Framework and a Case Study of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales
How is institutional formation gendered, and does it make a difference? Inspired by new institutionalism's generic claim that “the organisation of political life makes a difference” (March and Olsen 1984), we ask, how does the gendered organization of political life make a difference? The purpose of this article is to build a conceptual framework for understanding the gendered character (and effects) of institutional formation. We test the framew…
Path Dependency and the Reform of English Local Government
This paper uses the concept of path dependency to examine the changes to the political management structures of English local government. We note how the possible experience of decreasing returns among some local authority actors combined with the powerful intervention of politicians within New Labour at the national level led to a significant break from past policy and the imposition of measures to establish a separate executive that was claimed…
The profile of gender equality issue attention in Western E urope
This article investigates the factors that drive governments to pay attention to gender equality issues and place them upon executive agendas. In line with studies of the dynamics of issue attention, which demonstrate the importance of investigating variability in the attention policy makers give to issue demands across policy domains, this article argues that policy issues related to gender equality are multidimensional and patterns in executive…
Special advisers and the transmission of ideas from the policy primeval soup
This article examines the work of ministerial special advisers who play a key but underresearched role in transmitting policy ideas in government. We argue that this focus is necessary to challenge the reification of neoliberalism as an explanatory determinant of policy making. Initially we discuss the literature on the transmission of social science ideas into policy making, contrasting this with a governmentality approach. We then consider the …
Delivering 'Public Value
The possibility that public servants can act to create ‘public value’ offers a popular and potentially liberating normative code for the activity of public managers.1 The adoption of the concept however implies a changed understanding of legitimacy and accountability for policy actions. It is argued this new ‘public service contract’ is likely to be easier to adopt in local settings than in the core executive although in neither case is the adopt…
Metro Mayors
It is quite clear that the devolutionary settlement negotiated between the UK chancellor George Osborne and the leaders of the Greater Manchester Combined Authorities (GMCA) required local political actors to agree to oversight of the new arrangements by an elected metro mayor. In the intervening months since that announcement, governance arrangements for a Greater Manchester (GM) 'metro mayor' have proved to be both unique and fluid, drawing on …
Executive Agencies in Government
The creation of agencies is a growing feature of contemporary governance yet key questions about agency autonomy and their influence on policy making remain unanswered. This article operationalises a policy network approach to explore the impact of agentification in three British government departments. It argues that the transfer of resources from departments to agencies created differing power-dependent networks between minister, department and…
Can Cameron Capture Women's Votes? The Gendered Impediments to a Conservative Majority in 2015
Women have traditionally been more likely to vote Conservative than Labour, but the attraction of younger women voters to New Labour contributed to New Labour's winning electoral strategy in 1997 and 2001. Subsequently, the Conservative Party leadership intensified efforts to attract women voters through recruiting more women MPs and in its policy messages and proposals and in 2005 and 2010 the gender gap was largely neutralised. However, in the …
The Impact of Political Leadership on Organisational Performance
Many commentators view the political management reforms of English local government with some scepticism, raising concerns about the desirability of stronger leadership and the efficacy of institutional reform in encouraging stronger leadership. Using data from a five-year evaluation of the impact of the Local Government Act 2000, this paper reports evidence suggesting that institutional variation does influence the way that organisations operate…
Policy Advocacy in Hard Times
n Contains fulltext :\n 129684.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Investigating the Economic Determinants of the UK Gender Equality Policy Agenda
Promoting certain kinds of gender equality—such as promoting and supporting female participation in paid work or male engagement with unpaid care work—is costly. Yet, there has been little examination in gender and policy research of the economic determinants of gendered policy change. In this article we investigate, using graphs and descriptive analysis derived from three data sets, whether the agenda-setting possibilities of feminist policy act…
Elite Ethnographies
This article celebrates Rod Rhodes' use of ethnography to study political elites ‘up close and personal’. Initially Rhodes' work is contextualized within the development of political ethnography more generally, before his ethnographies of ‘Everyday life in a Ministry’ are reviewed, illustrating the potential of ethnography to research policy‐making elites. This review highlights epistemological and ontological questions which link to criticism of…
Engendering politics and policy
This article analyses the capacity of a single political party – New Labour in the UK – to engender politics and policy. It draws on Kingdon’s (1984) policy streams approach to demonstrate how with the election of New Labour in 1997 a window of opportunity emerged for gender changes in political representation, governance and policy terms. It argues that the commitment to engendering politics was an important step towards engendering policy, but …
Narratives and Dilemmas of Local Bureaucratic Elites
The worlds of local bureaucrats are under researched and under theorized compared with those of civil servants in core executives. Yet local bureaucratic elites, sitting as they do between central states and localities, are key actors in governance networks. In England, the role and responsibilities of local bureaucratic elites has been transformed since the days of professionalized officers heading departmental structures reporting to committees…
Gender, actors, and institutions at the local level
Research on gender equality policy has generally focused on actors and institutions at the national and international levels. This article considers the role of local‐level actors and institutions in explaining different policy responses to violence against women and girls (VAWG). The literature on gender policy trajectories identifies the particular importance of executive actors in influencing “status policies” like VAWG. Quantitative data are …
Identifying the Institutional Micro-Foundations of Gender Policy Change
A case study of reform in police governance provides an opportunity to examine how the micro-foundations of institutional change impact gender policy. The literature has established an association between institutional transformation and opportunities for gender policy change. It is clear that new actors and new rules are significant, but less is known about their interaction. Elinor Ostrom's concept of “rules-in-use” captures rules and their ena…
David Cameron's ‘Problem’ with Women
Prior to the election in 2010 David Cameron pledged that his first cabinet would comprise one‐third women and would be the most family friendly ever. Since forming the Coalition Government, he appears to have a ‘problem’ with women. We argue that this problem stems from: the weak representation of women in cabinet and across government; the diminishing resources available to government actors to support gender equality policy; and women's exclusi…
Weaponizing women and gender
Whilst there are significant electoral advantages for political parties to target women’s votes, scholarship on recent electoral appeals questions the quality of gendered policy promises to address deep structural gender inequalities existing within the British state. This article examines British Election Study data to identify women voters’ concerns and explores how the two largest Westminster parties developed appeals to women voters in the bu…
Ideas into policy
This themed issue of Policy & Politics explores the role of social science in informing public policy. 1A focus on the relationship between ideas and policy making is timely.Arguably, we have just lived through a time of extensive and sophisticated dialogue between government and the social sciences.In Britain, New Labour broke dramatically with the negative attitude to the social sciences that had characterised the Thatcher and Major governments…
Surveying the Landscape of Modernisation
A recent review of executive agencies argued there must be a ‘new revolution’ galvanizing the agency model for the 21st century. It identifies contemporary concerns around agencies' role in delivering government goals and their accountability. Originally in 1988 the ‘Next Steps’ agency model was developed precisely to tackle shortcomings in the delivery of central government functions and to extend existing accountability arrangements based on mi…
What did the coalition government do for women? An analysis of gender equality policy agendas in the UK 2010–2015
Hardware, Software or Network Connection?’ Theorizing Crisis in the UK Next Steps Agencies
This paper explores the literature theorizing institutional crises by examining the policy problems faced by the UK's Child Support Agency and Prison Service Agency in the mid 1990s. In both these cases the ‘hardware’ (delivery through agencies), and the ‘software’ (policy saliency) were linked to their difficulties. However, these policy areas can be contrasted with the Benefits Agency, another highly salient policy area where no crisis occurred…
Implementing Privatization Policies in ‘Next Steps’ Agencies
This article examines the implementation of privatization policies in two ‘Next Steps’ agencies. This is discussed with reference to the broader theoretical and empirical questions of how do institutions change and when are political actors constrained in implementing their policy choices. Cortell and Peterson’s framework for explaining institutional change, and the concept of intra‐state policy networks are used to analyse the cases. The differe…
Implementing Privatization Policies in ‘Next Steps’ Agencies
This article examines the implementation of privatization policies in two ‘Next Steps’ agencies. This is discussed with reference to the broader theoretical and empirical questions of how do institutions change and when are political actors constrained in implementing their policy choices. Cortell and Peterson’s framework for explaining institutional change, and the concept of intra‐state policy networks are used to analyse the cases. The differe…
Executive Agencies in Government
The creation of agencies is a growing feature of contemporary governance yet key questions about agency autonomy and their influence on policy making remain unanswered. This article operationalises a policy network approach to explore the impact of agentification in three British government departments. It argues that the transfer of resources from departments to agencies created differing power-dependent networks between minister, department and…
Surveying the Landscape of Modernisation
A recent review of executive agencies argued there must be a ‘new revolution’ galvanizing the agency model for the 21st century. It identifies contemporary concerns around agencies' role in delivering government goals and their accountability. Originally in 1988 the ‘Next Steps’ agency model was developed precisely to tackle shortcomings in the delivery of central government functions and to extend existing accountability arrangements based on mi…
Hardware, Software or Network Connection?’ Theorizing Crisis in the UK Next Steps Agencies
This paper explores the literature theorizing institutional crises by examining the policy problems faced by the UK's Child Support Agency and Prison Service Agency in the mid 1990s. In both these cases the ‘hardware’ (delivery through agencies), and the ‘software’ (policy saliency) were linked to their difficulties. However, these policy areas can be contrasted with the Benefits Agency, another highly salient policy area where no crisis occurred…
Path Dependency and the Reform of English Local Government
This paper uses the concept of path dependency to examine the changes to the political management structures of English local government. We note how the possible experience of decreasing returns among some local authority actors combined with the powerful intervention of politicians within New Labour at the national level led to a significant break from past policy and the imposition of measures to establish a separate executive that was claimed…
Women and New Labour
New Labour have set themselves up to specifically address women's issues and attract women voters, but how successful have they been? This book offers an analysis of New Labour's politics and policies from a gendered perspective.
Women and New Labour
Women and New Labour
Women and New LabourEngendering politics and policy?
Although there is a growing body of international literature on the feminisation of politics and the policy process and, as New Labour's term of office progresses, a rapidly growing series of texts around New Labour's politics and policies, until now no one text has conducted an analysis of New Labour's politics and policies from a gendered perspective, despite the fact that New Labour have set themselves up to specifically address women's issues…
Women and New Labour
When Do Bureaucrats Prefer Strong Political Principals? Institutional Reform and Bureaucratic Preferences in English Local Government
This article seeks to explain the attitudes of bureaucrats to the redesign of their bureaus by their elected principals. The starting point is a puzzle that a constitutional change in English local government, which was designed to enhance the influence and role of leading local politicians, resulted with bureaucrats as its most enthusiastic champions. The article explores explanations of this response, drawing on the deliberate discretion or pol…
Narratives and Dilemmas of Local Bureaucratic Elites
The worlds of local bureaucrats are under researched and under theorized compared with those of civil servants in core executives. Yet local bureaucratic elites, sitting as they do between central states and localities, are key actors in governance networks. In England, the role and responsibilities of local bureaucratic elites has been transformed since the days of professionalized officers heading departmental structures reporting to committees…
Delivering 'Public Value
The possibility that public servants can act to create ‘public value’ offers a popular and potentially liberating normative code for the activity of public managers.1 The adoption of the concept however implies a changed understanding of legitimacy and accountability for policy actions. It is argued this new ‘public service contract’ is likely to be easier to adopt in local settings than in the core executive although in neither case is the adopt…
The Impact of Political Leadership on Organisational Performance
Many commentators view the political management reforms of English local government with some scepticism, raising concerns about the desirability of stronger leadership and the efficacy of institutional reform in encouraging stronger leadership. Using data from a five-year evaluation of the impact of the Local Government Act 2000, this paper reports evidence suggesting that institutional variation does influence the way that organisations operate…
What Do Bureaucrats Like Doing? Bureaucratic Preferences in Response to Institutional Reform
How do bureaucrats respond to administrative reform in relation to their overall administrative goals? The authors test the bureau‐shaping thesis, which holds that bureaucrats’ preferences for certain kinds of roles and tasks motivate their support for bureau reform. Drawing on attitudinal and behavioral data from a survey of English local government officials, the findings underscore how bureaucrats with different interests and motivations sort …
The Core Executive
The core executive is a central focus for the study of policy change especially in Westminster-style parliamentary democracies such as the UK. This venue is recognised as the locus of power and where attention should be given for identifying and assessing the process of policy change. It is surprising, then, that studies on women's substantive representation – showing whether and how women can make a difference to politics and policy – have not e…
Engendering politics and policy
This article analyses the capacity of a single political party – New Labour in the UK – to engender politics and policy. It draws on Kingdon’s (1984) policy streams approach to demonstrate how with the election of New Labour in 1997 a window of opportunity emerged for gender changes in political representation, governance and policy terms. It argues that the commitment to engendering politics was an important step towards engendering policy, but …
Elite Ethnographies
This article celebrates Rod Rhodes' use of ethnography to study political elites ‘up close and personal’. Initially Rhodes' work is contextualized within the development of political ethnography more generally, before his ethnographies of ‘Everyday life in a Ministry’ are reviewed, illustrating the potential of ethnography to research policy‐making elites. This review highlights epistemological and ontological questions which link to criticism of…
Special advisers and the transmission of ideas from the policy primeval soup
This article examines the work of ministerial special advisers who play a key but underresearched role in transmitting policy ideas in government. We argue that this focus is necessary to challenge the reification of neoliberalism as an explanatory determinant of policy making. Initially we discuss the literature on the transmission of social science ideas into policy making, contrasting this with a governmentality approach. We then consider the …
Ideas into policy
This themed issue of Policy & Politics explores the role of social science in informing public policy. 1A focus on the relationship between ideas and policy making is timely.Arguably, we have just lived through a time of extensive and sophisticated dialogue between government and the social sciences.In Britain, New Labour broke dramatically with the negative attitude to the social sciences that had characterised the Thatcher and Major governments…
Investigating the Economic Determinants of the UK Gender Equality Policy Agenda
Promoting certain kinds of gender equality—such as promoting and supporting female participation in paid work or male engagement with unpaid care work—is costly. Yet, there has been little examination in gender and policy research of the economic determinants of gendered policy change. In this article we investigate, using graphs and descriptive analysis derived from three data sets, whether the agenda-setting possibilities of feminist policy act…
David Cameron's ‘Problem’ with Women
Prior to the election in 2010 David Cameron pledged that his first cabinet would comprise one‐third women and would be the most family friendly ever. Since forming the Coalition Government, he appears to have a ‘problem’ with women. We argue that this problem stems from: the weak representation of women in cabinet and across government; the diminishing resources available to government actors to support gender equality policy; and women's exclusi…
Acceptable Difference
Journal Article ‘Acceptable Difference’: Diversity, Representation and Pathways to UK Politics Get access Catherine Durose, Catherine Durose * 1University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Liz Richardson, Liz Richardson 2University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ryan Comb…
Policy Advocacy in Hard Times
n Contains fulltext :\n 129684.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
How is Institutional Formation Gendered, and Does it Make a Difference? A New Conceptual Framework and a Case Study of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales
How is institutional formation gendered, and does it make a difference? Inspired by new institutionalism's generic claim that “the organisation of political life makes a difference” (March and Olsen 1984), we ask, how does the gendered organization of political life make a difference? The purpose of this article is to build a conceptual framework for understanding the gendered character (and effects) of institutional formation. We test the framew…
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