Monica Threlfall
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Threlfall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Threlfall |
| SIGNATURE | THRELFALL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Purpose of Electoral Reform for Westminster
Britain is facing a referendum on electoral reform for Westminster in 2011, yet there is little debate over the goals of such a change. Arguably, the purposes of political representation should determine the choice of a new system. Thus, ten modernising goals that go further than merely giving more seats to the Liberal Democrats are proposed. In a society made up of women and men, both need balanced representation. In an educated society, citizen…
Reassessing the Role of Civil Society Organizations in the Transition to Democracy in Spain
Spain's democratization process has mainly been described as a settlement between political elites in which civil society organizations played little part. Yet the literature on Eastern European democratization sets great store by the role of civil society, both for transition and consolidation. Does this different treatment reflect the approach adopted by analysts or the actual contrasting presence of civil society organizations in the relevant …
June 15th, 1977
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The Social Dimension of the European Union: Innovative Methods for Advancing Integration
Regional integration processes can learn from the particularities of the European Union's social dimension, despite its apparent inconsistencies and sui generis form of development. The article provides a comprehensive retrospective overview of developments, and pays particular attention to the political and technical procedures adopted for progressing social policy. It argues that a regional integration process in a wide range of social fields h…
Explaining Gender Parity Representation in Spain: The Internal Dynamics of Parties
This paper sheds light on the reasons for the sudden rise of women in party politics and political representation in Spain. Structural explanations and the conditioning influence of the electoral system are reviewed before focusing on institutional and party-political explanations. It argues that the key factor in explaining this rise is not just the adoption of rules on the gender parity representation, but the intra-party politics that allows f…
Gendering Spanish Democracy
The political transformation of Spain into one of the world's leading democracies is well established, yet little is known about the differences between men and women's behaviour, experience and achievements during that process.How much did the women's movement contribute to this transformation?How far have policy advocates successfully integrated gender equality into key spheres of public life?Have power relations between women and men been re-b…
Open Forum on Spanish politics after 11 March: A Chatham House debate
This is the edited text of the first meeting that Chatham House has held exclusively on Spain, held at the Royal Institute of International Affairs on April 19th 2004. The meeting was chaired by Professor Richard Whitman, head of the European programme. The speakers analysed the 2004 parliamentary election results, gave their views on the future of Spain’s foreign relations after the Madrid bombings and the priorities of the new PSOE Government
European Social Integration: Harmonization, Convergence and Single Social Areas
The extensive research on European integration so far offers little to explain the effect of EU social policies on integration between member-states. Starting from the premise that there is a parallel process of social integration accompanying developments in political and economic integration, the article defines `social integration' and uses it as a tool for exploring the effects of EU policy and law from the citizen's perspective. It defines f…
Comparing unemployment in the UK and European Union: A Gender and Working Time Analysis
English The claim that the UK’s ‘flexible’ labour market had generated greater job creation than in other EU countries is challenged through a rereading of European labour force trends, focusing on gender, age and working time. The UK performance was characterised by long-standing high rates of male unemployment, a high want-to-work rate, fragmented employment, and the absorption of female demand into part-time work. The article argues that, give…
State Feminism or Party Feminism: Feminist Politics and the Spanish Institute of Women
Mapping the Women's Movement: Feminist Politics and Social Transformation in the North
Contributors to the book include Bianca Beccalli, Johanna Brenner, Jane Jenson, Vera Mackie, Evelyn Mahon, Maxine Molyneux, Sheila Rowbotham, Monica Threlfall and Peggy Watson
Spain in Social Europe: A Laggard or Compliant Member State
This study breaks new ground in examining how Spain, as a new member state, adapted to the rules of European Union social policy, particularly those regarding working conditions, gender equality and social protection. It shows how the PSOE government maintained a dynamic commitment which took Spain from ‘backward’ to ‘advanced’ and from ‘laggard’ to ‘compliant’ positions, but not uniformly so. Spain partially made up its ‘social deficit’ and impl…
The Women’s Movement in Spain
It would be hard to consider the Spanish women’s movement independently of recent events in Spanish politics. The death of General Franco in 1975, the gradual dismantling of the authoritarian system imposed on the country after the Civil War, together with the rapid rise to power of the
European Social Integration: Harmonization, Convergence and Single Social Areas
The extensive research on European integration so far offers little to explain the effect of EU social policies on integration between member-states. Starting from the premise that there is a parallel process of social integration accompanying developments in political and economic integration, the article defines `social integration' and uses it as a tool for exploring the effects of EU policy and law from the citizen's perspective. It defines f…
Explaining Gender Parity Representation in Spain: The Internal Dynamics of Parties
This paper sheds light on the reasons for the sudden rise of women in party politics and political representation in Spain. Structural explanations and the conditioning influence of the electoral system are reviewed before focusing on institutional and party-political explanations. It argues that the key factor in explaining this rise is not just the adoption of rules on the gender parity representation, but the intra-party politics that allows f…
Reassessing the Role of Civil Society Organizations in the Transition to Democracy in Spain
Spain's democratization process has mainly been described as a settlement between political elites in which civil society organizations played little part. Yet the literature on Eastern European democratization sets great store by the role of civil society, both for transition and consolidation. Does this different treatment reflect the approach adopted by analysts or the actual contrasting presence of civil society organizations in the relevant …
State Feminism or Party Feminism: Feminist Politics and the Spanish Institute of Women
The Social Dimension of the European Union: Innovative Methods for Advancing Integration
Regional integration processes can learn from the particularities of the European Union's social dimension, despite its apparent inconsistencies and sui generis form of development. The article provides a comprehensive retrospective overview of developments, and pays particular attention to the political and technical procedures adopted for progressing social policy. It argues that a regional integration process in a wide range of social fields h…
Spain in Social Europe: A Laggard or Compliant Member State
This study breaks new ground in examining how Spain, as a new member state, adapted to the rules of European Union social policy, particularly those regarding working conditions, gender equality and social protection. It shows how the PSOE government maintained a dynamic commitment which took Spain from ‘backward’ to ‘advanced’ and from ‘laggard’ to ‘compliant’ positions, but not uniformly so. Spain partially made up its ‘social deficit’ and impl…
The Purpose of Electoral Reform for Westminster
Britain is facing a referendum on electoral reform for Westminster in 2011, yet there is little debate over the goals of such a change. Arguably, the purposes of political representation should determine the choice of a new system. Thus, ten modernising goals that go further than merely giving more seats to the Liberal Democrats are proposed. In a society made up of women and men, both need balanced representation. In an educated society, citizen…
Comparing unemployment in the UK and European Union: A Gender and Working Time Analysis
English The claim that the UK’s ‘flexible’ labour market had generated greater job creation than in other EU countries is challenged through a rereading of European labour force trends, focusing on gender, age and working time. The UK performance was characterised by long-standing high rates of male unemployment, a high want-to-work rate, fragmented employment, and the absorption of female demand into part-time work. The article argues that, give…
The Women’s Movement in Spain
It would be hard to consider the Spanish women’s movement independently of recent events in Spanish politics. The death of General Franco in 1975, the gradual dismantling of the authoritarian system imposed on the country after the Civil War, together with the rapid rise to power of the
Mapping the Women's Movement: Feminist Politics and Social Transformation in the North
Contributors to the book include Bianca Beccalli, Johanna Brenner, Jane Jenson, Vera Mackie, Evelyn Mahon, Maxine Molyneux, Sheila Rowbotham, Monica Threlfall and Peggy Watson
Spain in Social Europe: A Laggard or Compliant Member State
This study breaks new ground in examining how Spain, as a new member state, adapted to the rules of European Union social policy, particularly those regarding working conditions, gender equality and social protection. It shows how the PSOE government maintained a dynamic commitment which took Spain from ‘backward’ to ‘advanced’ and from ‘laggard’ to ‘compliant’ positions, but not uniformly so. Spain partially made up its ‘social deficit’ and impl…
State Feminism or Party Feminism: Feminist Politics and the Spanish Institute of Women
Comparing unemployment in the UK and European Union: A Gender and Working Time Analysis
English The claim that the UK’s ‘flexible’ labour market had generated greater job creation than in other EU countries is challenged through a rereading of European labour force trends, focusing on gender, age and working time. The UK performance was characterised by long-standing high rates of male unemployment, a high want-to-work rate, fragmented employment, and the absorption of female demand into part-time work. The article argues that, give…
European Social Integration: Harmonization, Convergence and Single Social Areas
The extensive research on European integration so far offers little to explain the effect of EU social policies on integration between member-states. Starting from the premise that there is a parallel process of social integration accompanying developments in political and economic integration, the article defines `social integration' and uses it as a tool for exploring the effects of EU policy and law from the citizen's perspective. It defines f…
Gendering Spanish Democracy
The political transformation of Spain into one of the world's leading democracies is well established, yet little is known about the differences between men and women's behaviour, experience and achievements during that process.How much did the women's movement contribute to this transformation?How far have policy advocates successfully integrated gender equality into key spheres of public life?Have power relations between women and men been re-b…
Open Forum on Spanish politics after 11 March: A Chatham House debate
This is the edited text of the first meeting that Chatham House has held exclusively on Spain, held at the Royal Institute of International Affairs on April 19th 2004. The meeting was chaired by Professor Richard Whitman, head of the European programme. The speakers analysed the 2004 parliamentary election results, gave their views on the future of Spain’s foreign relations after the Madrid bombings and the priorities of the new PSOE Government
June 15th, 1977
Preview this article: June 15th, 1977, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ijis/20/2/s5-1.gif
The Social Dimension of the European Union: Innovative Methods for Advancing Integration
Regional integration processes can learn from the particularities of the European Union's social dimension, despite its apparent inconsistencies and sui generis form of development. The article provides a comprehensive retrospective overview of developments, and pays particular attention to the political and technical procedures adopted for progressing social policy. It argues that a regional integration process in a wide range of social fields h…
Explaining Gender Parity Representation in Spain: The Internal Dynamics of Parties
This paper sheds light on the reasons for the sudden rise of women in party politics and political representation in Spain. Structural explanations and the conditioning influence of the electoral system are reviewed before focusing on institutional and party-political explanations. It argues that the key factor in explaining this rise is not just the adoption of rules on the gender parity representation, but the intra-party politics that allows f…
Reassessing the Role of Civil Society Organizations in the Transition to Democracy in Spain
Spain's democratization process has mainly been described as a settlement between political elites in which civil society organizations played little part. Yet the literature on Eastern European democratization sets great store by the role of civil society, both for transition and consolidation. Does this different treatment reflect the approach adopted by analysts or the actual contrasting presence of civil society organizations in the relevant …
The Purpose of Electoral Reform for Westminster
Britain is facing a referendum on electoral reform for Westminster in 2011, yet there is little debate over the goals of such a change. Arguably, the purposes of political representation should determine the choice of a new system. Thus, ten modernising goals that go further than merely giving more seats to the Liberal Democrats are proposed. In a society made up of women and men, both need balanced representation. In an educated society, citizen…
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