Carole Spary
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carole Spary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carole |
| FAMILY NAME | Spary |
| SIGNATURE | SPARY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8448-4994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election
Gender quota campaigns to increase women’s parliamentary presence in India have been ongoing for more than twenty years. Meanwhile, each general election results in the slow growth of women MPs, partly due to political parties nominating few women. The 2019 election was no different in this respect –women still make up fewer than 15% of lower house MPs. Incidents of gendered violence against women candidates also contributed to a characterisation…
Gender Development and the State in India
Gender, Development, and the State in India
This book explores the relationship between the state, development policy, and gender (in)equality in India. It discusses the formation of state policy on gender and development in India in the post-1990 period through three key organising concepts of institutions, discourse, and agency. The book pays particular attention to whether the international policy language of gender mainstreaming has been adopted by the Indian state, and if so, to what …
The dashing ladies of the Shiv Sena
Tarini Bedi’s book is a study of women party workers in the Shiv Sena, a regional party based in the state of Maharashtra, in western India. The book explores how Shiv Sena women establish networks
Women candidates and party nomination trends in India – evidence from the 2009 general election
More women MPs than ever before were elected to the lower house of the national parliament of India in the 2009 general election. Yet, the increase in women's presence in the Lok Sabha cannot necessarily be attributed to the increased willingness of political parties to field more women candidates, despite rhetorical party political support for increasing women's participation in political institutions. This article analyses party political nomin…
Managing disruptions in the Indian parliament
Legislative protest as disruptive democratic practice
This article explores the phenomenon of legislative protest and presents an analytical framework for understanding its significance for democratic theory and practice. Legislative protest is defined as disruptive behaviour of elected representatives within legislative settings. Acts of legislative protest include sit-ins, boycotts, walkouts, and individual or collective disobedience of the presiding officer within legislative chambers or committe…
A conversation
Contesting South Asian modernities
This Editorial introduces the papers in this special conference issue of Contemporary South Asia, placing them in the context of the 24th British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) annual conference, held at the University of Warwick in March 2010. The conference theme was ‘Landscapes of the imagination’, and the papers in this Special Issue reflect a range of approaches to this theme, in terms of methodology, topic and regional spread. …
Performing Ethno-Linguistic Representation
This article explores the performance of ethno-linguistic representation in the national parliament of India, analyzing language practices in debates and ceremonies. Despite a policy of official multilingualism, strong institutional norms prioritize English or Hindi as the two official languages of parliament. However, regional languages are more popular in some forms of debate and ceremonies than others, particularly in the oath/affirmation as a…
Disrupting Rituals of Debate in the Indian Parliament
Disruptions to debate in India's national parliament by members have generated concern among critics, who have associated disruptions with a larger narrative of the decline of India's political institutions. The violation of debate through disruption is perceived by parliament as a threat to its prestige, legitimacy, and therefore its institutional reproduction. This article discusses institutional responses, which have, however, avoided formally…
Female Political Leadership in India
This paper is a recognition and exploration of alternative accounts of female political leadership in India, other than dynastic succession. It explores the varied paths to power which female political leaders in India have followed in the past two decades within the changing institutional environment of electoral politics. The paper argues that gender is an important factor of the path to power as well as the exercise of leadership and the sourc…
The general election in India, May 2004
Disrupting Rituals of Debate in the Indian Parliament
Disruptions to debate in India's national parliament by members have generated concern among critics, who have associated disruptions with a larger narrative of the decline of India's political institutions. The violation of debate through disruption is perceived by parliament as a threat to its prestige, legitimacy, and therefore its institutional reproduction. This article discusses institutional responses, which have, however, avoided formally…
Legislative protest as disruptive democratic practice
This article explores the phenomenon of legislative protest and presents an analytical framework for understanding its significance for democratic theory and practice. Legislative protest is defined as disruptive behaviour of elected representatives within legislative settings. Acts of legislative protest include sit-ins, boycotts, walkouts, and individual or collective disobedience of the presiding officer within legislative chambers or committe…
Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election
Gender quota campaigns to increase women’s parliamentary presence in India have been ongoing for more than twenty years. Meanwhile, each general election results in the slow growth of women MPs, partly due to political parties nominating few women. The 2019 election was no different in this respect –women still make up fewer than 15% of lower house MPs. Incidents of gendered violence against women candidates also contributed to a characterisation…
Women candidates and party nomination trends in India – evidence from the 2009 general election
More women MPs than ever before were elected to the lower house of the national parliament of India in the 2009 general election. Yet, the increase in women's presence in the Lok Sabha cannot necessarily be attributed to the increased willingness of political parties to field more women candidates, despite rhetorical party political support for increasing women's participation in political institutions. This article analyses party political nomin…
Female Political Leadership in India
This paper is a recognition and exploration of alternative accounts of female political leadership in India, other than dynastic succession. It explores the varied paths to power which female political leaders in India have followed in the past two decades within the changing institutional environment of electoral politics. The paper argues that gender is an important factor of the path to power as well as the exercise of leadership and the sourc…
Managing disruptions in the Indian parliament
The dashing ladies of the Shiv Sena
Tarini Bedi’s book is a study of women party workers in the Shiv Sena, a regional party based in the state of Maharashtra, in western India. The book explores how Shiv Sena women establish networks
Performing Ethno-Linguistic Representation
This article explores the performance of ethno-linguistic representation in the national parliament of India, analyzing language practices in debates and ceremonies. Despite a policy of official multilingualism, strong institutional norms prioritize English or Hindi as the two official languages of parliament. However, regional languages are more popular in some forms of debate and ceremonies than others, particularly in the oath/affirmation as a…
The general election in India, May 2004
Female Political Leadership in India
This paper is a recognition and exploration of alternative accounts of female political leadership in India, other than dynastic succession. It explores the varied paths to power which female political leaders in India have followed in the past two decades within the changing institutional environment of electoral politics. The paper argues that gender is an important factor of the path to power as well as the exercise of leadership and the sourc…
Performing Ethno-Linguistic Representation
This article explores the performance of ethno-linguistic representation in the national parliament of India, analyzing language practices in debates and ceremonies. Despite a policy of official multilingualism, strong institutional norms prioritize English or Hindi as the two official languages of parliament. However, regional languages are more popular in some forms of debate and ceremonies than others, particularly in the oath/affirmation as a…
Disrupting Rituals of Debate in the Indian Parliament
Disruptions to debate in India's national parliament by members have generated concern among critics, who have associated disruptions with a larger narrative of the decline of India's political institutions. The violation of debate through disruption is perceived by parliament as a threat to its prestige, legitimacy, and therefore its institutional reproduction. This article discusses institutional responses, which have, however, avoided formally…
Contesting South Asian modernities
This Editorial introduces the papers in this special conference issue of Contemporary South Asia, placing them in the context of the 24th British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) annual conference, held at the University of Warwick in March 2010. The conference theme was ‘Landscapes of the imagination’, and the papers in this Special Issue reflect a range of approaches to this theme, in terms of methodology, topic and regional spread. …
A conversation
Managing disruptions in the Indian parliament
Legislative protest as disruptive democratic practice
This article explores the phenomenon of legislative protest and presents an analytical framework for understanding its significance for democratic theory and practice. Legislative protest is defined as disruptive behaviour of elected representatives within legislative settings. Acts of legislative protest include sit-ins, boycotts, walkouts, and individual or collective disobedience of the presiding officer within legislative chambers or committe…
Women candidates and party nomination trends in India – evidence from the 2009 general election
More women MPs than ever before were elected to the lower house of the national parliament of India in the 2009 general election. Yet, the increase in women's presence in the Lok Sabha cannot necessarily be attributed to the increased willingness of political parties to field more women candidates, despite rhetorical party political support for increasing women's participation in political institutions. This article analyses party political nomin…
The dashing ladies of the Shiv Sena
Tarini Bedi’s book is a study of women party workers in the Shiv Sena, a regional party based in the state of Maharashtra, in western India. The book explores how Shiv Sena women establish networks
Gender, Development, and the State in India
This book explores the relationship between the state, development policy, and gender (in)equality in India. It discusses the formation of state policy on gender and development in India in the post-1990 period through three key organising concepts of institutions, discourse, and agency. The book pays particular attention to whether the international policy language of gender mainstreaming has been adopted by the Indian state, and if so, to what …
Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election
Gender quota campaigns to increase women’s parliamentary presence in India have been ongoing for more than twenty years. Meanwhile, each general election results in the slow growth of women MPs, partly due to political parties nominating few women. The 2019 election was no different in this respect –women still make up fewer than 15% of lower house MPs. Incidents of gendered violence against women candidates also contributed to a characterisation…
Gender Development and the State in India
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