Marian Sawer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 542415 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marian Sawer |
| NOMBRES | Marian |
| APELLIDO | Sawer |
| FIRMA | SAWER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9406-6702 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 361 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Feminist Institution Building
The war on woke
Toxic Parliaments
This open access book examines the ways in which Westminster parliamentary systems have dealt with problems of violence and harassment in the workplace
Gender mainstreaming and the substantive representation of women
Over the past 20 years here has been a proliferation around the world of parliamentary bodies with a gender equality mandate. Yet they are often overlooked because they don’t fit easily into existing frameworks for comparing national machineries for the advancement of women or women’s policy agencies. Nor have they been made visible in much of the work on the substantive representation of women, even as such work has broadened out from a focus on…
The concept of the level playing field
In 2019, the High Court of Australia used the term ‘level playing field’ no less than 18 times when considering limits on electoral campaign expenditure. This article examines the usefulness of this metaphor when assessing the opportunity to compete in elections on an equal basis. It shows that the metaphor is often used in electoral jurisprudence and by electoral monitoring bodies, but rarely subject to analysis. One place where it has been anal…
You Daughters of Freedom
Introduction to Pippa Norris, ‘Do public perceptions of electoral malpractice undermine democratic satisfaction? The US in comparative perspective
Introduction to Rein Taagepera, ‘Science walks on two legs, but social sciences try to hop on one
Vale Jean Laponce 1925–2016
Ritual and Rhythm in Electoral Systems
Ritual and Rhythm in Electoral Systems: A Comparative Legal Account. By Graeme Orr (Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2015), pp.xiv + 223. £70.00 (cloth)
Organising for a More Diverse Political Science
Until the 1970s neither Australian nor New Zealand political studies gave much attention to issues of diversity. This reflected both the makeup of the profession and the majoritarian nature of the political systems that was the major object of its attention. We argue that feminist organising on both sides of the Tasman had led to greater pluralism within the discipline. Using a comparative institutional approach, we trace the relationship between…
Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance
Representing Gender Equality
In this special issue, we showcase feminist research on the role of specialised parliamentary bodies in promoting gender equality. Much previous research on the substantive representation of women has focused on individual actors rather than on institutional supports. However, specialised parliamentary bodies have been multiplying across the world over the past 20 years, whether in the form of standing committees, all-party parliamentary groups o…
Specialised Parliamentary Bodies
In the past, feminist scholarship was often highly sceptical of institution-building within existing political and governance institutions. This may have contributed to a neglect of the new phenomenon of specialised parliamentary bodies with a gender equality remit. This article explores whether such parliamentary bodies can be an effective means of promoting the substantive representation of women and whether they can be understood as part of th…
Neoliberalism and gender equality policy in Australia
After a Coalition electoral victory in 2013, the Australian Office for Women was returned from the periphery to the centre of government. This was contrary to the expectation that women’s policy will be given greater salience under governments of the left rather than of the right. To unpack this puzzle, we examine institutional arrangements and policy directions under successive Labor and Coalition governments in Australia, including the abolitio…
Gender Equality Architecture
This article provides a first overall account of the intergovernmental components of Australia's gender equality architecture in the period 1978–2014. From the 1990s this is largely a story of institutional fragility. In explaining this, factors identified by scholars of state feminism, such as lack of political will, partisan ideologies and discursive shifts, particularly the increased influence of neoliberal approaches to governance, are taken …
Feminist Political Science and Feminist Politics
This article moves away from issues of the impact of women and feminist scholarship on political science to examine the relationship of feminist political science to a political constituency. It traces the trajectory of feminist political science from its close relationship with women's movement activism in the 1970s to the highly professionalised disciplinary subfield of today. It highlights some of the dilemmas resulting both from professional …
The Women's Movement and Government
Some scholars have suggested that institutionalisation and professionalisation of women's movement organisations leads to ‘feminist fading’. This article examines whether such propositions hold true for the Australian women's movement. It ma
Misogyny and misrepresentation
Australia’s first woman Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was sworn into office in 2010. In 2012 she was driven to make a powerful speech on misogyny, which reverberated around the world. This research note explores the circumstances prompting the Prime Minister’s speech and argues that the arrival of a woman Prime Minister helped bring into the open the gendered nature of politics. At a more formal level, sexist commentary focused on issues such as…
Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet
Women Acting for Women
In the new country of Timor-Leste, women constituted in 2011 32 per cent of the parliament, a relatively high figure in the world and in the region. But to what extent has the presence of women in parliament contributed to progress towards gender equality? In this article we argue that the passage of a parliamentary resolution on gender-responsive budgeting in Timor-Leste was an act of substantive representation, and we draw on a range of data to…
What makes the substantive representation of women possible in a Westminster parliament? The story of RU486 in Australia
This article explores institutional and other factors facilitating the substantive representation of women in parliament. It engages with a range of indicators of substantive representation, including process/responsiveness indicators, legislative/policy outcomes and attitudinal alignment of women representatives and women in the community. It presents an Australian case study of a successful initiative by a cross-party group of women parliamenta…
Gender and Institutions
Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics: Gender and Politics. Jonathan Dean, 2010. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism. Mona Le
Andrew Fisher and the Era of Liberal Reform
The double victory of Andrew Fisher in the 1910 federal election was a great political triumph for Australia's labour movement. However the policy achievements of the Fisher Government can best be understood by applying a gendered comparative lens that ta
Women in Executive Power
1. Introduction Gretchen Bauer and Manon Tremblay 2. Arab States Vania Carvalho Pinto 3. South and Southeast Asia Andrea Fleschenberg 4. Oceania Jennifer Curtin and Marian Sawer 5. Central and Eastern Europe Maxime Forest 6. Sub-Saharan Africa Gretchen Bauer 7. Latin America Tiffany D. Barnes and Mark P. Jones 8. North America Farida Jalalzai and Manon Tremblay 9. Western Europe Fiona Buckley and Yvonne Galligan 10. Nordic Countries Christina Ber…
Parliamentary Representation of Women
The 1990s have witnessed a wide range of initiatives at national and international levels to increase the parliamentary representation of women. It is argued here that the “underrepresentation of women” is an inherently ambiguous slogan that has wrapped up in it quite different families of arguments, including the right to represent, the need for representativeness, and the representation of interests. This ambiguity is politically powerful but m…
Misogyny and misrepresentation
Australia’s first woman Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was sworn into office in 2010. In 2012 she was driven to make a powerful speech on misogyny, which reverberated around the world. This research note explores the circumstances prompting the Prime Minister’s speech and argues that the arrival of a woman Prime Minister helped bring into the open the gendered nature of politics. At a more formal level, sexist commentary focused on issues such as…
What makes the substantive representation of women possible in a Westminster parliament? The story of RU486 in Australia
This article explores institutional and other factors facilitating the substantive representation of women in parliament. It engages with a range of indicators of substantive representation, including process/responsiveness indicators, legislative/policy outcomes and attitudinal alignment of women representatives and women in the community. It presents an Australian case study of a successful initiative by a cross-party group of women parliamenta…
The Representation of Women in Australia
Under-representation of women is an inherently ambiguous slogan with a number of layers of meaning. When we seek to increase the presence of women in parliaments, it is not only for reasons of justice or recognition; we are also usually seeking to make parliaments more responsive to women in the community. Elected women, however, confront many conflicting pressures and loyalties. In this context, what structures serve to strengthen the responsive…
Governing for the Mainstream
In this paper I begin by examining the role of extra‐parliamentary institutions of representation within Australian democracy. I suggest that such institutions are an important supplement to majoritarian political institutions in ensuring that ‘weak voices’ are heard in the policy process. I then look at the impact of the Howard government on such extra parliamentary forms of community representation, drawing parallels with contemporaneous develo…
Specialised Parliamentary Bodies
In the past, feminist scholarship was often highly sceptical of institution-building within existing political and governance institutions. This may have contributed to a neglect of the new phenomenon of specialised parliamentary bodies with a gender equality remit. This article explores whether such parliamentary bodies can be an effective means of promoting the substantive representation of women and whether they can be understood as part of th…
Neoliberalism and gender equality policy in Australia
After a Coalition electoral victory in 2013, the Australian Office for Women was returned from the periphery to the centre of government. This was contrary to the expectation that women’s policy will be given greater salience under governments of the left rather than of the right. To unpack this puzzle, we examine institutional arrangements and policy directions under successive Labor and Coalition governments in Australia, including the abolitio…
The impact of feminist scholarship on Australian political science
The discipline of political science has remained male dominated in most parts of the world. Women have organised within political science associations both to raise the status of women in the profession and to try to transform the discipline. This article is a personal account of the 25-year history of the Women's Caucus of the Australasian Political Studies Association and its successes and failures. While the status of women in the profession h…
Down with Elites and Up with Inequality
There is a rich comparative literature on Australian and Canadian politics but relatively little comparing political discourse, despite the election in both countries of governments promising to ‘govern for the mainstream’. This article presents a comparative analysis of market populist discourse as articulated by the Howard and Harper governments, using a conceptualisation of market populism that draws on work by Thomas Frank. The article examin…
Gender mainstreaming and the substantive representation of women
Over the past 20 years here has been a proliferation around the world of parliamentary bodies with a gender equality mandate. Yet they are often overlooked because they don’t fit easily into existing frameworks for comparing national machineries for the advancement of women or women’s policy agencies. Nor have they been made visible in much of the work on the substantive representation of women, even as such work has broadened out from a focus on…
Women Acting for Women
In the new country of Timor-Leste, women constituted in 2011 32 per cent of the parliament, a relatively high figure in the world and in the region. But to what extent has the presence of women in parliament contributed to progress towards gender equality? In this article we argue that the passage of a parliamentary resolution on gender-responsive budgeting in Timor-Leste was an act of substantive representation, and we draw on a range of data to…
The women's lobby
The 'women's lobby' or the 'powerful feminist lobby' has been held responsible for a range of evils including the undermining of the traditional family, public expenditure on community services, social engineering and the imposition of 'political correctness'. To what extent is there a 'women's lobby' working from inside or outside government to influence public decision‐mating? In this paper we explore this question, using data from a social net…
Gender, Metaphor and the State
The neo-liberal upsurge of the last twenty years and the neo-liberal case against the welfare state has gained much of its emotional force from a sub-text which is highly gendered. Whereas social liberalism had contained the promise of more autonomy within the private sphere and more caring values in the public sphere, neo-liberalism depicts the results of social liberalism as a loss of self reliance - through 'over-protection' by the state in th…
Representing Gender Equality
In this special issue, we showcase feminist research on the role of specialised parliamentary bodies in promoting gender equality. Much previous research on the substantive representation of women has focused on individual actors rather than on institutional supports. However, specialised parliamentary bodies have been multiplying across the world over the past 20 years, whether in the form of standing committees, all-party parliamentary groups o…
Premature Obituaries
Why have there been so many obituaries for the women's movement, written in so many different countries, despite so many continuing manifestations of life? We argue here that the problem is not simply the short attention span of the media and the constant quest for newness but also the terms in which social movements have been understood. This is partly a methodological question concerning how social movements are distinguished from other politic…
New Hebrides 1978–79
Organising for a More Diverse Political Science
Until the 1970s neither Australian nor New Zealand political studies gave much attention to issues of diversity. This reflected both the makeup of the profession and the majoritarian nature of the political systems that was the major object of its attention. We argue that feminist organising on both sides of the Tasman had led to greater pluralism within the discipline. Using a comparative institutional approach, we trace the relationship between…
Above‐the‐line voting in Australia
2005). Above‐the‐line voting in Australia: How democratic? Representation: Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 286-290
The Two‐Way Street
The interaction between government and community‐based advocacy organisations is becoming complex and highly structured. While some analysts seek to explain such interplay within neo‐Marxist or public choice frameworks, we argue the relationship is best understood as a two‐way street, full of tensions but neither a conspiracy against the public interest nor part of a larger design to deradicalise social movements. Drawing on a wide range of Austr…
Building Coalitions
Both major contestants in the 1993 election appealed to fear and uncertainty among voters in general, but there were differences in their conceptualisation of the society to which they were appealing. Labor had spent many years cultivating sections of the electorate such as women, immigrants, youth, unionists, welfare beneficiaries and the organisations claiming to represent them. In their view society was built up from social groups and Labor so…
Feminist Political Science and Feminist Politics
This article moves away from issues of the impact of women and feminist scholarship on political science to examine the relationship of feminist political science to a political constituency. It traces the trajectory of feminist political science from its close relationship with women's movement activism in the 1970s to the highly professionalised disciplinary subfield of today. It highlights some of the dilemmas resulting both from professional …
Emily's list and angry white men
In the 1998 federal election the politics of ‘angry white men’ intruded on the campaignwith the entry of the Abolish Child Support/Family Court Party and the Family LawReform Party and with strong male support for the Pauline Hanson One NationParty. The coalition under John Howard continued with a politics of social division,including policies differentiating between women inside and outside the workforce.The Labor Party had ‘mainstreamed’ women …
Gender Equality Architecture
This article provides a first overall account of the intergovernmental components of Australia's gender equality architecture in the period 1978–2014. From the 1990s this is largely a story of institutional fragility. In explaining this, factors identified by scholars of state feminism, such as lack of political will, partisan ideologies and discursive shifts, particularly the increased influence of neoliberal approaches to governance, are taken …
Gender and Institutions
Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics: Gender and Politics. Jonathan Dean, 2010. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism. Mona Le
Presence and the Price
Consensus and patriarchal values
The Place of Geographical Factors in Historical Materialism
Plekhanov on Russian History
G. V. Plekhanov and the Relationship between Geographical Determinism and Historical Materialism
New Directions in Historical Materialism
Considerations on Western Marxism
Marxism and the Question of the Asiatic Mode of Production
Antonio Gramsci
Australia and the New Hebrides
New Hebrides 1978–79
The contents of politics 1966–1978
Women and women's issues in the 1980 federal elections
(1981). Women and women's issues in the 1980 federal elections. Politics: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 243-249
The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky
From the ethical state to the minimal state
Australian liberalism and corporatism
George Brandis, Tom Harley and Don Markwell (eds), Liberals face the Future: Essays on Australian Liberalism, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 386, $14.99 (paper) and Katharine West, The Revolution in Australian Politics, Melbourne, Penguin Books, 1984, pp. 116, $4.95 (paper). John Rickard, H.B. Higgins: the rebel as judge. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp.350. $29.95 (cloth). Stuart Macintyre, Militant: the life and times of Paddy Tr…
From motherhood to sisterhood
Two steps backwards
Despite the deliberate attempt by the Labor and Liberal parties to pursue the ‘women's vote’ in the July Federal election, both parties have been retreating from previous commitments to equal employment opportunity (EEO). The Australian Democrats (AD) have been the only party consistently to support EEO objectives and to appear to mirror this commitment in their own practice (three of the seven AD Senators, including the Federal Parliamentary Lea…
Academic freedom and social responsibility
Reclaiming social liberalism
Reclaiming the State
Building Coalitions
Both major contestants in the 1993 election appealed to fear and uncertainty among voters in general, but there were differences in their conceptualisation of the society to which they were appealing. Labor had spent many years cultivating sections of the electorate such as women, immigrants, youth, unionists, welfare beneficiaries and the organisations claiming to represent them. In their view society was built up from social groups and Labor so…
The women's lobby
The 'women's lobby' or the 'powerful feminist lobby' has been held responsible for a range of evils including the undermining of the traditional family, public expenditure on community services, social engineering and the imposition of 'political correctness'. To what extent is there a 'women's lobby' working from inside or outside government to influence public decision‐mating? In this paper we explore this question, using data from a social net…
Trust the Women
The Two‐Way Street
The interaction between government and community‐based advocacy organisations is becoming complex and highly structured. While some analysts seek to explain such interplay within neo‐Marxist or public choice frameworks, we argue the relationship is best understood as a two‐way street, full of tensions but neither a conspiracy against the public interest nor part of a larger design to deradicalise social movements. Drawing on a wide range of Austr…
Gender, Metaphor and the State
The neo-liberal upsurge of the last twenty years and the neo-liberal case against the welfare state has gained much of its emotional force from a sub-text which is highly gendered. Whereas social liberalism had contained the promise of more autonomy within the private sphere and more caring values in the public sphere, neo-liberalism depicts the results of social liberalism as a loss of self reliance - through 'over-protection' by the state in th…
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