P Meier
Biographic Data
| ID | 25547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Meier |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Meier |
| SIGNATURE | MEIER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4108-5875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 508 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Prototyping a tool to layer lived experience narratives onto systems maps
Systems mapping approaches have attracted international interest for their value to policy actors. However, the maps they create can seem impersonal and disconnected from the lived experience of the communities that policy actors serve. This paper introduces our prototype tool designed to bring systems mapping, research evidence on causal connections, and lived experience narratives together. Our inspiration came from Community Panels of people w…
From the Compact City to the X-Minute neighborhood: A Systematic Review of the Health and Wellbeing Impacts of Sustainable Urban Development Models (Sudms) on Women
Throughout the past 50 years, sustainable urban development models (SUDMs) have been introduced in cities across the world with the intention of limiting environmental air pollution and, more recently, greenhouse gas emissions. However, the health and wellbeing impacts that these interventions have had on different demographic groups are not well understood. Feminist urbanists have often critiqued hierarchical and non-participatory approaches to …
Anti-gender politics and European democracies' legacies of exclusion and violence
How could 20-minute neighbourhoods impact health and health inequalities? A policy scoping review
Pathways to assumed health (inequality) outcomes require better specification and evidence. Health inequalities are particularly under-explored, and scenario modelling might provide a means to explore the dynamic aspects necessary to examine these important outcomes pre-implementation
From Parliament to Party: The Gender‐Sensitive Parliamentary Group
Gender-sensitive parliaments are an emergent international norm. Research primarily focused on parliaments as gendered workplaces functioning with formal and informal rules and routines that either constrain or promote gender equality. We shift the focus to parliamentary groups and parties in public office as key actors in achieving a gender-sensitive parliament. We argue that they play a crucial role in many parliamentary systems and can activel…
Canaries in the Coal Mine: On the Political Representation and Participation of Social Groups
Canaries used to be taken into the coal mines to warn miners for danger to come. Nowadays, the phrase is still used as an idiom describing a warning sign. Diversity and gender studies scholars resemble these canaries in some respects. They are occasionally put in cages, where they may even die, but where they can also sing. Contrary to those of the canaries, their songs are in themselves warning signs, underlining political and societal problems,…
Contesting policy categories using intersectionality: Reflections for studying migration governance
This article presents a reflection on the analytical value of intersectionality for scholars who seek to critically interrogate migration governance in Europe – of which integration measures are an integral part. While there is a growing interest in using gender and feminist theory to investigate the policies and practices that sustain migration governance, there has been little dedicated reflection on the analytical significance of intersectiona…
The European Parliament and Gender Equality: An Analysis of Achievements Based on the Concept of Power
The European Parliament (EP) as one of the key institutions of the European Union has gained considerable powers over time and often presents itself as a constant gender equality promoter. Whilst gender equality in the EP tended to be analysed in terms of women's descriptive, substantive and symbolic representation, this article shifts the focus to the concept of power itself in assessing gender equality achievements in and through the EP. Applyi…
Exploring the Relationship between Federal Reform and the Representation of the People: The Case of the Belgian House of Representatives
Federal systems tend to have two venues of representation to ensure that both the people as a whole and the constituent units are represented at the federal level. While this double representation is put forward as a basic (normative) feature of federal systems, little to no empirical research has been conducted on this issue. This contribution therefore studies the representation of the people as a whole and of the constituent units in the Belgi…
Women's Descriptive Representation in Burundi: The Mixed Effects of Gender Quotas
Building on original data collected for the period between 2001 and 2020, this article contributes to the research on the effectiveness of gender quotas. It does so, first, by looking into the salience of ministerial portfolios allocated to women, and, secondly, by examining the spillover effect of the gender quotas in positions where they do not apply. We find that the implementation of gender quotas gradually resulted in women being assigned to…
Evidence-based policy-making in normatively divided policy fields: European Institute for Gender Equality, Agency for Fundamental Rights and Slovak policies tackling violence against women
In recent years, we have seen a shift towards soft law policy-making within EU gender equality policies, embracing a new rationale of evidence as a promising panacea for the ills of democratic deficit. This shift has been fostered by the establishment of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), which both promote tools of benchmarking, ranking and good-practice sharing. Focusing on the rela…
Conceptualizing morality policy: A dyadic morality frame analysis of a gendered legislative debate on abortion
Challenging boundaries to expand frontiers in gender and policy studies
Gender and policy studies needs to face challenges and cross boundaries if the discipline is to develop. This article argues that gender and policy studies needs to explicitly foreground the centrality of politics – the analysis of power – in approaching policy. The discipline confronts boundaries in relation to inclusivity, diversity and relevance. Inclusive gender equality demands challenging the hegemonising and marginalising boundaries in the…
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey
This analysis provides a useful platform for further work, using prospective or intervention designs, to test the relative effectiveness of different moderation strategies for alcohol consumers who want to reduce their alcohol consumption
Everyone has the right to their opinion”: “Gender Ideology” Rhetoric and Epistemic Struggles in Slovak Policymaking
Through the case study of the Slovak Committee on Gender Equality, a governmental advisory body, this article draws upon the growing literature on “gender ideology” rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe to study the efforts of advocates of that rhetoric to gain access to policymaking structures. With the aid of narrative research, we examine the Committee’s struggles over appropriate terminology and discourse, data and research, and ultimately t…
Trans Laws and Constitutional Rulings in Belgium: The Ambiguous Relations between Sex and Gender
In this article we reflect upon the evolution from the Belgian trans law of 2007 to those of 2017 and beyond, giving adult citizens the possibility to have their self-determined gender legally recognised. The 2019 ruling of the Belgian Constitutional Court, condemning the Belgian State for being discriminatory against gender fluid and gender non-binary persons regarding their legal gender recognition, requires the Belgian government to either add…
The Significance of Symbolic Representation for Gender Issues in Politics
This article argues that many empirical studies in the field of gender and politics reduce symbolic representation to an effect of descriptive representation, which limits our understanding of the relevance of symbolic representation. We claim that we should understand symbolic representation as a dimension in itself, not merely as an effect of another dimension of political representation. In this article we develop this argument showing how sym…
The Dark Side of Descriptive Representation: Bodies, Normalisation and Exclusion
This contribution elaborates on the role model function of descriptive representatives. We seek to elaborate on potentially negative effects of role models, as we think they can endanger a feminist project of dismantling hierarchical power relations. When society attributes descriptive representatives the position of role models, the former no longer simply stand for their groups in a socio-demographic manner. Role models also stand for them in a…
Good Symbolic Representation: The Relevance of Inclusion
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Juggling three life spheres: Reconciling Work, Family and Politics
In the field of work–life balance, most research focuses on the reconciliation of role-related expectations that derive from the work and family spheres. This article aims to identify coping strategies that reconcile life spheres in situations that go beyond the classic two-sphere framework. We analyze the actual coping behavior of individuals juggling three life spheres by studying local Flemish politicians. The strategies that were found in thi…
Capturing in words what a symbol symbolizes? Challenges for studying symbolic representation from a discursive approach
Studying symbolic representation is not only relevant, but also challenging. Hanna Pitkin [1967. The Concept of Representation. CA: University of California Press, 97] already warned us that “[w]e can never exhaust, never quite capture in words, the totality of what a symbol symbolizes: suggests, evokes, implies.” We will discuss the opportunities and challenges we encountered in our study of symbolic representation from a discursive politics app…
Conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of symbolic representation – an introduction
How is symbolic representation to be conceptualized and empirically examined? There is no unique answer to this question and each of its possible answers raises particular methodological challenges. The Dialogues section “Investigating symbolic representation” explores new directions for theorizing about and empirically investigating symbolic representation. This collection of contributions seeks to advance the study of symbolic representation in…
Policymaking from a Gender+ Equality Perspective
This article discusses policymaking from a gender+ equality perspective. It connects the knowledge from various subfields ranging from development planning, to feminist policy studies, to works on gender mainstreaming. By connecting different but convergent feminist subdisciplines, it draws a picture of the field of gender+ and policymaking. Central in this analysis are the questioning of gender+ bias in the policy process and the development of …
Beyond the Box: A Comprehensive Study of Sexist, Homophobic, and Transphobic Attitudes Among the Belgian Population
While various studies have examined sexist, homophobic, lesbophobic, biphobic, and transphobic attitudes, no comprehensive research has yet combined all of these attitudes in all of their dimensions (cognitive beliefs, affect, and behaviour). Furthermore, most previous studies have failed to take the influences of respondents’ sexual orientation and gender identity into consideration in their analyses. The Beyond the Box survey, conducted in Belg…
Unravelling the alcohol harm paradox: A population-based study of social gradients across very heavy drinking thresholds
Low socioeconomic status groups are more likely to drink at extreme levels, which may partially explain the alcohol harm paradox. Policies that address alcohol-related health inequalities need to consider extreme drinking levels in some sub-groups that may be associated with multiple markers of deprivation. This will require a more disaggregated understanding of drinking practices
The Mutual Contagion Effect of Legal and Party Quotas: A Belgian Perspective
This article examines the use of legal and party gender quotas in the Belgian electoral process during the second half of the 1990s. It is argued that the parallel use of both types of quotas entails a particular contagion effect. The development of legal and party measures in Belgium indicates that the issue of gender-balanced participation in political decision-making is a political struggle in which legal measures serve as a benchmark for part…
Policymaking from a Gender+ Equality Perspective
This article discusses policymaking from a gender+ equality perspective. It connects the knowledge from various subfields ranging from development planning, to feminist policy studies, to works on gender mainstreaming. By connecting different but convergent feminist subdisciplines, it draws a picture of the field of gender+ and policymaking. Central in this analysis are the questioning of gender+ bias in the policy process and the development of …
Sowing the Seeds of Its Own Failure: Implementing the Concept of Gender Mainstreaming
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 18, Number 4, Winter 2011
The Rise of Gender Quota Laws: Expanding the Spectrum of Determinants for Electoral Reform
The seminal work of Arend Lijphart, Electoral Systems and Party Systems (1994), limits the definition of electoral reforms to those affecting electoral formulas, district magnitudes, assembly size, or electoral thresholds. Following this definition, studies on electoral reform have put political parties and their motivations at centre stage. Expanding the definition of electoral reform, however, requires a move beyond parties to explore the multi…
Gender Mainstreaming in the EU: Incorporating a Feminist Reading
This article explores the extent to which a feminist reading of gender mainstreaming is incorporated in the EU political discourse by analysing how family policy and gender inequality in politics are framed in EU policy documents. Gender mainstreaming is treated as an open signifier that can be filled with both feminist and non-feminist content. The article provides a set of criteria to assess whether a feminist reading of gender mainstreaming ha…
A Gender Gap Not Closed by Quotas: The Renegotiation of the Public Sphere
The article argues that while legislation on sex quotas can be seen as a renegotiation of the public sphere at macro level, suggesting a formal recognition of gender equality and a subsequent redistribution of power positions, it does not necessarily imply recognition of the issue at micro level. Nearly a decade after the first sex quotas act had been adopted, a survey among Flemish politicians reveals a gender gap on such quotas. Male and female…
Framing Gender Equality in the European Union Political Discourse
In the last decade, the European Union (EU) approach to gender equality has broadened to new concepts, such as gender mainstreaming, and new issues, such as "family policies", "domestic violence", and "gender inequality in politics". However, the frame analysis of policy documents in these new areas shows, first, that each issue has developed its own particular features, and, secondly, that the broadening of the EU-political discourse on gender e…
From Laggard to Leader: Explaining the Belgian Gender Quotas and Parity Clause
This article analyses the Belgian gender parity debate of the 1990s. It first sketches the history of this debate and how it led to the adoption of statutory gender quotas (1994 and 2002) and finally also to the insertion of a clause on parity democracy into the Constitution. The article then discusses the factors explaining the adoption of these measures. After focussing first on the electoral system and citizenship model in place, it looks at t…
Beyond the Box: A Comprehensive Study of Sexist, Homophobic, and Transphobic Attitudes Among the Belgian Population
While various studies have examined sexist, homophobic, lesbophobic, biphobic, and transphobic attitudes, no comprehensive research has yet combined all of these attitudes in all of their dimensions (cognitive beliefs, affect, and behaviour). Furthermore, most previous studies have failed to take the influences of respondents’ sexual orientation and gender identity into consideration in their analyses. The Beyond the Box survey, conducted in Belg…
The Significance of Symbolic Representation for Gender Issues in Politics
This article argues that many empirical studies in the field of gender and politics reduce symbolic representation to an effect of descriptive representation, which limits our understanding of the relevance of symbolic representation. We claim that we should understand symbolic representation as a dimension in itself, not merely as an effect of another dimension of political representation. In this article we develop this argument showing how sym…
Social Movement Organizations and Changing State Architectures: Comparing Women's Movement Organizing in Flanders and Scotland
This article analyzes the impact of restructuring processes on the organizational structure and lobbying strategies of women's movement organizations (WMOs) in Belgium (Flanders) and the UK (Scotland). We argue that devolution/federalization and the resultant creation of new, intermediary levels of governance offers a devolution/federalism advantage to WMOs. Multilevel governance multiplies access points, allowing for accumulation of funds, limit…
Critical Frame Analysis of Eu Gender Equality Policies: New Perspectives on the Substantive Representation of Women
This article adopts a novel approach to the question of women's substantive representation, exploring the potential of Critical Frame Analysis. It allows for an open approach whereby the form and content of what substantive representation entails are not defined at the outset. Rather the analysis reveals their construction, which permits a broadening of the perspective of the concept of substantive representation and of its approach. Studying pol…
Discursive Dynamics in Gender Equality Politics: What about ‘Feminist Taboos’
Discursive dynamics play an important role in shaping the meanings of gender equality. The article discusses the relation between hegemonic discourses on gender equality policies and feminist taboos. It suggests that feminist scholars could paradoxically be trapped in hegemonic discourses on gender equality policies that may lead to taboos about particular approaches to and interpretations of such policies. Three main feminist hegemonic discourse…
Challenging boundaries to expand frontiers in gender and policy studies
Gender and policy studies needs to face challenges and cross boundaries if the discipline is to develop. This article argues that gender and policy studies needs to explicitly foreground the centrality of politics – the analysis of power – in approaching policy. The discipline confronts boundaries in relation to inclusivity, diversity and relevance. Inclusive gender equality demands challenging the hegemonising and marginalising boundaries in the…
Constructive thinking: A broad coping variable with specific components
The structure of constructive thinking and the development of an instrument for measuring it, the Constructive Thinking Inventory (CTI), were discussed. Scales were derived from a factor analysis of an item domain of people's everyday automatic thinking. When the CTI and other tests were factor analyzed, separate intellective and nonintellective factors were found, with the CTI loading more strongly on the nonintellective factor than any other te…
Quotas, Quotas Everywhere: From Party Regulations to Gender Quotas for Corporate Management Boards. Another Case of Contagion
This article studies gender quotas for advisory boards, electoral lists of candidates and boards of listed and state-owned companies. The logic of contagion effects is used to explain a multiplication of gender quotas, and this article argues that contagion effects are also at play when it comes to the adoption of gender quotas for different types of decision-making bodies within one political system. Contagion effects are found in the gender quo…
Imams in Flanders: A Research Note
This paper presents the results of an exploratory, mixed-method study on imams in Flanders. The research question was mainly who are they?, in an attempt to draw the first picture of their socio-demographic background, ethnicity, functions, and expectations with respect to their position in Flanders, or in Belgium more broadly speaking. The first three sections give context information about Muslims, Islam, and mosques in Belgium and Flanders. In…
Quotas for advisory committees, business and politics: Just more of the same
Nowadays, we can distinguish gender quotas targeting the political, the social and the economic spheres of society. Taking the Belgian case as an example, this article examines to what extent these different generations or groups of gender quotas differ intrinsically from each other. To this end, it analyses five generic gender quota laws adopted in the period 1990–2011 and the rationales underlying them. The analysis shows that the rules and und…
Representative claims and beyond: A study of Muslim women's inclusion in the Flemish headscarf debate
In this article, we take a stand against the relativism of contemporary “claim-based” approaches to the study of the substantive representation of women (SRW), and argue for on-going evaluation of the responsiveness of actors’ claims to speak for women. We advance the concept of responsiveness as a criterion for evaluating the quality of SRW. We define such quality in a relational manner; implying the inclusion of women's judgment in the represen…
Power and Gender: Policy Frames on Gender Inequality in Politics in the Netherlands and Spain
This article studies a potential barrier for women in political decision‐making: the way in which policy documents frame the concept of power. Our study covers a selection of Dutch and Spanish policy documents on the issue of women in political decision‐making. Drawing on Steven Lukes, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault, we examine what policy actors say about the concept of power and we analyze existing power mechanisms in the text, even when th…
Everyone has the right to their opinion”: “Gender Ideology” Rhetoric and Epistemic Struggles in Slovak Policymaking
Through the case study of the Slovak Committee on Gender Equality, a governmental advisory body, this article draws upon the growing literature on “gender ideology” rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe to study the efforts of advocates of that rhetoric to gain access to policymaking structures. With the aid of narrative research, we examine the Committee’s struggles over appropriate terminology and discourse, data and research, and ultimately t…
Good Symbolic Representation: The Relevance of Inclusion
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Putting Intersectionality into Practice in Different Configurations of Equality Architecture: Belgium and the Netherlands
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 19, Number 4, Winter 2012
Convergence and Divergence: The Federalization of Belgian Equality Policies
The development of an asymmetrical federal structure profoundly changed the institutional setting for Belgian gender equality policies. This contribution assesses the influence of this process on the development of the Belgian women's policy agencies and its gender equality policies. It argues that while the characteristics of the Belgian federal system—its asymmetrical structure and dual, centrifugal nature—stimulate the development of diverging…
Concepts of citizenship underlying EU gender equality policies
This article assesses the framing of gender equality in the EU political discourse from 1995 to 2005 and the conceptualisations of citizenship that emerge from it. To assess the extent to which EU gender equality policies meet the aspirations of the concept of a gender equal citizenship, it develops an analysis of how different feminist approaches to citizenship are related to concepts of rights and responsibilities in EU gender equality policies…
Numerische Methoden der Relieferfassung
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Constructive thinking: A broad coping variable with specific components
The structure of constructive thinking and the development of an instrument for measuring it, the Constructive Thinking Inventory (CTI), were discussed. Scales were derived from a factor analysis of an item domain of people's everyday automatic thinking. When the CTI and other tests were factor analyzed, separate intellective and nonintellective factors were found, with the CTI loading more strongly on the nonintellective factor than any other te…
Junge Frauen — junge Männer
Why Study Gender Quotas in a Broader Comparative Perspective
Gender quotas and related issues such as parity democracy or reservations for women are ‘hot’ in the sense that they feed intensive discussions a bout their legitimacy and efficiency, both at the theoretical and the practical level. The aim of these discussions is to search for convincing arguments, but they occasionally lead to the confusion of personal opinion with what is hoped to be a general normative argument (Meier, 2002). On the whole, ho…
The Mutual Contagion Effect of Legal and Party Quotas: A Belgian Perspective
This article examines the use of legal and party gender quotas in the Belgian electoral process during the second half of the 1990s. It is argued that the parallel use of both types of quotas entails a particular contagion effect. The development of legal and party measures in Belgium indicates that the issue of gender-balanced participation in political decision-making is a political struggle in which legal measures serve as a benchmark for part…
Gender Mainstreaming in the EU: Incorporating a Feminist Reading
This article explores the extent to which a feminist reading of gender mainstreaming is incorporated in the EU political discourse by analysing how family policy and gender inequality in politics are framed in EU policy documents. Gender mainstreaming is treated as an open signifier that can be filled with both feminist and non-feminist content. The article provides a set of criteria to assess whether a feminist reading of gender mainstreaming ha…
State Feminism and Women’s Movements in Belgium: Complex Patterns in a Multilevel System
In the aftermath of the Second World War Belgium developed a welfare system with extensive unemployment allowances, social security, pension rights, accessible health and care infrastructure. Notwithstanding a rather conservative gender regime, fed by the Catholic tradition and its impact on politics, the participation of women in the labour market is higher than in the neighbouring countries like Germany or the Netherlands. A decrease in the num…
The Pregnant Worker and Caring Mother: Framing Family Policies across Europe
Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A critical frame analysis of gender policies in Europe
This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. In its exploration of the diverse meanings of gender equality it not only takes into account the existence of different visions of gender equality, and the way in which different political and theoretical debates crosscut these visions, but also reflects upon the geographical contexts in which visions and deba…
European Union Gender Policy Since Beijing: Shifting Concepts and Agendas
A Gender Gap Not Closed by Quotas: The Renegotiation of the Public Sphere
The article argues that while legislation on sex quotas can be seen as a renegotiation of the public sphere at macro level, suggesting a formal recognition of gender equality and a subsequent redistribution of power positions, it does not necessarily imply recognition of the issue at micro level. Nearly a decade after the first sex quotas act had been adopted, a survey among Flemish politicians reveals a gender gap on such quotas. Male and female…
Framing Gender Equality in the European Union Political Discourse
In the last decade, the European Union (EU) approach to gender equality has broadened to new concepts, such as gender mainstreaming, and new issues, such as "family policies", "domestic violence", and "gender inequality in politics". However, the frame analysis of policy documents in these new areas shows, first, that each issue has developed its own particular features, and, secondly, that the broadening of the EU-political discourse on gender e…
Critical Frame Analysis of Eu Gender Equality Policies: New Perspectives on the Substantive Representation of Women
This article adopts a novel approach to the question of women's substantive representation, exploring the potential of Critical Frame Analysis. It allows for an open approach whereby the form and content of what substantive representation entails are not defined at the outset. Rather the analysis reveals their construction, which permits a broadening of the perspective of the concept of substantive representation and of its approach. Studying pol…
La position des femmes en politique locale belge et l'impact des quotas
L'article étudie les quotas adoptés par les partis politiques belges. Les sections locales de parti ayant décrété des mesures supplémentaires étaient beaucoup plus nombreuses lors des élections locales en 2006 que lors des élections locales précédentes en 2000, ce qui indique que les partis politiques intègrent davantage la notion d'égalité. Par contre, les sections sont peu enthousiastes de trouver un meilleur équilibre par le biais de nouvelles…
Concepts of citizenship underlying EU gender equality policies
This article assesses the framing of gender equality in the EU political discourse from 1995 to 2005 and the conceptualisations of citizenship that emerge from it. To assess the extent to which EU gender equality policies meet the aspirations of the concept of a gender equal citizenship, it develops an analysis of how different feminist approaches to citizenship are related to concepts of rights and responsibilities in EU gender equality policies…
Power and Gender: Policy Frames on Gender Inequality in Politics in the Netherlands and Spain
This article studies a potential barrier for women in political decision‐making: the way in which policy documents frame the concept of power. Our study covers a selection of Dutch and Spanish policy documents on the issue of women in political decision‐making. Drawing on Steven Lukes, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault, we examine what policy actors say about the concept of power and we analyze existing power mechanisms in the text, even when th…
Implications of incorporating air-quality co-benefits into climate change policymaking
We present an analysis of the barriers and opportunities for incorporating air quality co-benefits into climate policy assessments. It is well known that many strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions also decrease emissions of health-damaging air pollutants and precursor species, including particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide. In a survey of previous studies we found a range of estimates for the air quality co-benefits …
Discursive Dynamics in Gender Equality Politics: What about ‘Feminist Taboos’
Discursive dynamics play an important role in shaping the meanings of gender equality. The article discusses the relation between hegemonic discourses on gender equality policies and feminist taboos. It suggests that feminist scholars could paradoxically be trapped in hegemonic discourses on gender equality policies that may lead to taboos about particular approaches to and interpretations of such policies. Three main feminist hegemonic discourse…
Convergence and Divergence: The Federalization of Belgian Equality Policies
The development of an asymmetrical federal structure profoundly changed the institutional setting for Belgian gender equality policies. This contribution assesses the influence of this process on the development of the Belgian women's policy agencies and its gender equality policies. It argues that while the characteristics of the Belgian federal system—its asymmetrical structure and dual, centrifugal nature—stimulate the development of diverging…
Sowing the Seeds of Its Own Failure: Implementing the Concept of Gender Mainstreaming
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 18, Number 4, Winter 2011
O4-6.4 The development of models to underpin public health guidance
The distinction between the developments of health economics decision models provides a mechanism to synthesise evidence from a range of different sources to inform policy debates and public health guidance decisions. In this session, exemplified by a discussion of the development of the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model, we will discuss some of the main generic steps in model development. These iterative steps include a clear understanding of the s…
The Rise of Gender Quota Laws: Expanding the Spectrum of Determinants for Electoral Reform
The seminal work of Arend Lijphart, Electoral Systems and Party Systems (1994), limits the definition of electoral reforms to those affecting electoral formulas, district magnitudes, assembly size, or electoral thresholds. Following this definition, studies on electoral reform have put political parties and their motivations at centre stage. Expanding the definition of electoral reform, however, requires a move beyond parties to explore the multi…
Changing Adolescence: Social Trends and Mental Health
Putting Intersectionality into Practice in Different Configurations of Equality Architecture: Belgium and the Netherlands
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 19, Number 4, Winter 2012
From Laggard to Leader: Explaining the Belgian Gender Quotas and Parity Clause
This article analyses the Belgian gender parity debate of the 1990s. It first sketches the history of this debate and how it led to the adoption of statutory gender quotas (1994 and 2002) and finally also to the insertion of a clause on parity democracy into the Constitution. The article then discusses the factors explaining the adoption of these measures. After focussing first on the electoral system and citizenship model in place, it looks at t…
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