Claire Annesley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4377882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Annesley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Annesley |
| SIGNATURE | ANNESLEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3521-9144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 285 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender
Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender explores why men have been more likely than women to be appointed to cabinet, why gendered patterns of appointment vary cross-nationally, and why, over time, women’s inclusion in cabinets has grown significantly. The book is innovative in conceiving of cabinet formation as a gendered process governed by rules that empower and constrain presidents and prime ministers as selectors of cabinet ministers, and rules that…
What did the coalition government do for women? An analysis of gender equality policy agendas in the UK 2010–2015
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What do women symbolize? Symbolic representation and cabinet appointments
Women’s presence in cabinets around the world has expanded considerably in the past two decades. All male cabinets are all but unthinkable in most democracies today. Yet existing studies of cabinet formation pay little systematic attention to the representative dimensions of cabinets. We argue that the concept of symbolic representation is useful for analyzing ministerial recruitment because cabinets are not mere collections of individuals with p…
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…
Gender and the Executive Branch
The executive branch of government constitutes the pinnacle of political power. In principle, presidents and prime ministers, along with their cabinets, set the policy agenda, debate, and deliberate policy initiatives; introduce legislation; and oversee the implementation of public policies. Executives are the most visible political actors, representing the public “face” of government. Until very recently, executives were also the most masculiniz…
Rules of Ministerial Recruitment
Ministerial office represents the pinnacle of political power. Quite rightly, politics and gender and comparative scholarship is paying increasing attention to women's access to political executives (Claveria 2014; Davis 1997; Escobar-Lemmon and Taylor-Robinson 2005; Krook and O'Brien 2012; Reynolds 1999; Siaroff 2000; Whitford, Wilkins, and Ball 2007). These studies develop and test a range of hypotheses relating to the demographic, socioeconomi…
Policy Advocacy in Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Performance on Gendering Executive Attention
n Contains fulltext :\n 129684.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
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 …
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…
Campaigning against the Cuts: Gender Equality Movements in Tough Times
The Coalition's economic strategy poses a significant threat to gender equality in the UK. In the absence of committed gender equality advocates in the government, campaigning is, again, from the outside. This article presents some of the new strategies developed by individuals and organisations such as the Women's Budget Group and the Fawcett Society to fight against the cuts and considers the effectiveness of their approaches
David Cameron's ‘Problem’ with Women: Representing Women in the Coalition Government
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…
Gendering the Institutional Reform of the Welfare State: Germany, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland
Due to the intervention of feminist scholars, the gendered dimensions of welfare states have increasingly been recognized. In welfare state analysis there is now a clear understanding of the role of intersecting institutions in the structure of the welfare state, referred to as 'welfare regimes'. Very importantly, feminists showed how different social policy systems enforce or weaken the 'male-breadwinner principle', which defines a gendered divi…
Gender, Capitalism and Economic Crisis: Impact and Responses
The economic crisis is gendered in terms of its causes, impact and responses. A feminist critique of the recent economic crisis highlights the contributory role played by the dominant masculine norms entrenched in capitalism and a lack of women and (gender-) democracy within work organisations. This article reviews and takes forward the feminist critique of causes of the capitalist crisis and its subsequent gendered impact, particularly in terms …
The Core Executive: Gender, Power and Change
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: The legacy of New Labour
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 …
Gendering politics and policy
From an academic and policy perspective, it is increasingly deemed undemocratic if women are not adequately represented in political institutions: gender equality is a key marker of a healthy and functioning democracy. Likewise, there is a growing expectation that women?s presence in sites of decision making is required to make an impact on the gendered dimensions of public policy and deliver gender equality outcomes. The title of this themed sec…
Gender, Politics and Policy Change: The Case of Welfare Reform Under New Labour
Politics and gender scholarship is increasingly seeking to understand the relationship between the presence of women in politics and gendered policy outcomes – the substantive representation of women (SRW). Yet its focus remains squarely on the activities of ‘critical actors’ in parliaments and women's policy agencies and on ‘feminist’ rather than ‘mainstream’ policy areas. In contrast, this article investigates the impact of feminist actors in a…
Women and New LabourEngendering politics and policy?: Engendering 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: Engendering Politics and Policy?
Lisbon and social Europe: Towards a European 'adult worker model' welfare system
The Lisbon Process, launched in 2000 and relaunched in 2005, revived the debate about the existence of a European social model. This article argues that the Lisbon agenda presents a coherent vision of a social model which can be characterized as a Europe-wide Adult Worker Model (AWM). This is a system which assumes paid employment for all adults in order to secure their economic independence. The article identifies evidence of a development in th…
Women's Political Agency and Welfare Reform: Engendering the Adult Worker Model
Journal Article Women's Political Agency and Welfare Reform: Engendering the Adult Worker Model Get access Claire Annesley Claire Annesley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, JULY 2007, Pages 452–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsm018 Published: 22 May 2007
Economic and Welfare Policy
Since the Labour Government's election in May 1997, its economic policy has had two main strands: a strategy for delivering macroeconomic stability; and a one for providing employment and economic opportunities to all by tackling supply-side barriers to growth (Balls, 1998). Establishing strong and stable public finances was seen as the pre-condition for achieving sustained economic growth and improvements in productivity and investment, and econ…
Transforming Welfare and Gender Regimes: Evidence from the UK and Germany
Americanised and Europeanised: UK Social Policy since 1997
A number of recent accounts of UK social policy under New Labour have emphasised the continuing Americanisation of the British welfare state. This article does not deny the influence of the US but rather seeks to balance it with an account of the growing Europeanisation of UK social policy. It argues that Americanisation and Europeanisation are distinct in terms of both content and process. Since these are not mutually exclusive, the UK is curren…
The Core Executive: Gender, Power and Change
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…
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…
Lisbon and social Europe: Towards a European 'adult worker model' welfare system
The Lisbon Process, launched in 2000 and relaunched in 2005, revived the debate about the existence of a European social model. This article argues that the Lisbon agenda presents a coherent vision of a social model which can be characterized as a Europe-wide Adult Worker Model (AWM). This is a system which assumes paid employment for all adults in order to secure their economic independence. The article identifies evidence of a development in th…
Gender, Politics and Policy Change: The Case of Welfare Reform Under New Labour
Politics and gender scholarship is increasingly seeking to understand the relationship between the presence of women in politics and gendered policy outcomes – the substantive representation of women (SRW). Yet its focus remains squarely on the activities of ‘critical actors’ in parliaments and women's policy agencies and on ‘feminist’ rather than ‘mainstream’ policy areas. In contrast, this article investigates the impact of feminist actors in a…
Rules of Ministerial Recruitment
Ministerial office represents the pinnacle of political power. Quite rightly, politics and gender and comparative scholarship is paying increasing attention to women's access to political executives (Claveria 2014; Davis 1997; Escobar-Lemmon and Taylor-Robinson 2005; Krook and O'Brien 2012; Reynolds 1999; Siaroff 2000; Whitford, Wilkins, and Ball 2007). These studies develop and test a range of hypotheses relating to the demographic, socioeconomi…
Women's Political Agency and Welfare Reform: Engendering the Adult Worker Model
Journal Article Women's Political Agency and Welfare Reform: Engendering the Adult Worker Model Get access Claire Annesley Claire Annesley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, JULY 2007, Pages 452–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsm018 Published: 22 May 2007
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 …
What do women symbolize? Symbolic representation and cabinet appointments
Women’s presence in cabinets around the world has expanded considerably in the past two decades. All male cabinets are all but unthinkable in most democracies today. Yet existing studies of cabinet formation pay little systematic attention to the representative dimensions of cabinets. We argue that the concept of symbolic representation is useful for analyzing ministerial recruitment because cabinets are not mere collections of individuals with p…
Policy Advocacy in Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Performance on Gendering Executive Attention
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…
Engendering politics and policy: The legacy of New Labour
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 …
Gender, Capitalism and Economic Crisis: Impact and Responses
The economic crisis is gendered in terms of its causes, impact and responses. A feminist critique of the recent economic crisis highlights the contributory role played by the dominant masculine norms entrenched in capitalism and a lack of women and (gender-) democracy within work organisations. This article reviews and takes forward the feminist critique of causes of the capitalist crisis and its subsequent gendered impact, particularly in terms …
David Cameron's ‘Problem’ with Women: Representing Women in the Coalition Government
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…
Campaigning against the Cuts: Gender Equality Movements in Tough Times
The Coalition's economic strategy poses a significant threat to gender equality in the UK. In the absence of committed gender equality advocates in the government, campaigning is, again, from the outside. This article presents some of the new strategies developed by individuals and organisations such as the Women's Budget Group and the Fawcett Society to fight against the cuts and considers the effectiveness of their approaches
Americanised and Europeanised: UK Social Policy since 1997
A number of recent accounts of UK social policy under New Labour have emphasised the continuing Americanisation of the British welfare state. This article does not deny the influence of the US but rather seeks to balance it with an account of the growing Europeanisation of UK social policy. It argues that Americanisation and Europeanisation are distinct in terms of both content and process. Since these are not mutually exclusive, the UK is curren…
What did the coalition government do for women? An analysis of gender equality policy agendas in the UK 2010–2015
Gender and the Executive Branch
The executive branch of government constitutes the pinnacle of political power. In principle, presidents and prime ministers, along with their cabinets, set the policy agenda, debate, and deliberate policy initiatives; introduce legislation; and oversee the implementation of public policies. Executives are the most visible political actors, representing the public “face” of government. Until very recently, executives were also the most masculiniz…
Gendering politics and policy
From an academic and policy perspective, it is increasingly deemed undemocratic if women are not adequately represented in political institutions: gender equality is a key marker of a healthy and functioning democracy. Likewise, there is a growing expectation that women?s presence in sites of decision making is required to make an impact on the gendered dimensions of public policy and deliver gender equality outcomes. The title of this themed sec…
Reconfiguring Women's Social Citizenship in Germany: The Right to Sozialhilfe; the Responsibility to Work
Unemployment and demographic change are placing a great burden the German welfare state and on Sozialhilfe (Social Assistance) in particular. As in many other advanced capitalist states, this pressure has highlighted the issue of what duties should be attached to social rights. Increasingly, claimants are being expected to offer work in return for their benefit entitlement. This article assesses the significance of this trend in Germany and quest…
Transforming Welfare and Gender Regimes: Evidence from the UK and Germany
Reconfiguring Women's Social Citizenship in Germany: The Right to Sozialhilfe; the Responsibility to Work
Unemployment and demographic change are placing a great burden the German welfare state and on Sozialhilfe (Social Assistance) in particular. As in many other advanced capitalist states, this pressure has highlighted the issue of what duties should be attached to social rights. Increasingly, claimants are being expected to offer work in return for their benefit entitlement. This article assesses the significance of this trend in Germany and quest…
Transforming Welfare and Gender Regimes: Evidence from the UK and Germany
Americanised and Europeanised: UK Social Policy since 1997
A number of recent accounts of UK social policy under New Labour have emphasised the continuing Americanisation of the British welfare state. This article does not deny the influence of the US but rather seeks to balance it with an account of the growing Europeanisation of UK social policy. It argues that Americanisation and Europeanisation are distinct in terms of both content and process. Since these are not mutually exclusive, the UK is curren…
Economic and Welfare Policy
Since the Labour Government's election in May 1997, its economic policy has had two main strands: a strategy for delivering macroeconomic stability; and a one for providing employment and economic opportunities to all by tackling supply-side barriers to growth (Balls, 1998). Establishing strong and stable public finances was seen as the pre-condition for achieving sustained economic growth and improvements in productivity and investment, and econ…
Women and New LabourEngendering politics and policy?: Engendering 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: Engendering Politics and Policy?
Lisbon and social Europe: Towards a European 'adult worker model' welfare system
The Lisbon Process, launched in 2000 and relaunched in 2005, revived the debate about the existence of a European social model. This article argues that the Lisbon agenda presents a coherent vision of a social model which can be characterized as a Europe-wide Adult Worker Model (AWM). This is a system which assumes paid employment for all adults in order to secure their economic independence. The article identifies evidence of a development in th…
Women's Political Agency and Welfare Reform: Engendering the Adult Worker Model
Journal Article Women's Political Agency and Welfare Reform: Engendering the Adult Worker Model Get access Claire Annesley Claire Annesley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, JULY 2007, Pages 452–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsm018 Published: 22 May 2007
The Core Executive: Gender, Power and Change
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: The legacy of New Labour
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 …
Gendering politics and policy
From an academic and policy perspective, it is increasingly deemed undemocratic if women are not adequately represented in political institutions: gender equality is a key marker of a healthy and functioning democracy. Likewise, there is a growing expectation that women?s presence in sites of decision making is required to make an impact on the gendered dimensions of public policy and deliver gender equality outcomes. The title of this themed sec…
Gender, Politics and Policy Change: The Case of Welfare Reform Under New Labour
Politics and gender scholarship is increasingly seeking to understand the relationship between the presence of women in politics and gendered policy outcomes – the substantive representation of women (SRW). Yet its focus remains squarely on the activities of ‘critical actors’ in parliaments and women's policy agencies and on ‘feminist’ rather than ‘mainstream’ policy areas. In contrast, this article investigates the impact of feminist actors in a…
Gendering the Institutional Reform of the Welfare State: Germany, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland
Due to the intervention of feminist scholars, the gendered dimensions of welfare states have increasingly been recognized. In welfare state analysis there is now a clear understanding of the role of intersecting institutions in the structure of the welfare state, referred to as 'welfare regimes'. Very importantly, feminists showed how different social policy systems enforce or weaken the 'male-breadwinner principle', which defines a gendered divi…
Gender, Capitalism and Economic Crisis: Impact and Responses
The economic crisis is gendered in terms of its causes, impact and responses. A feminist critique of the recent economic crisis highlights the contributory role played by the dominant masculine norms entrenched in capitalism and a lack of women and (gender-) democracy within work organisations. This article reviews and takes forward the feminist critique of causes of the capitalist crisis and its subsequent gendered impact, particularly in terms …
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…
Campaigning against the Cuts: Gender Equality Movements in Tough Times
The Coalition's economic strategy poses a significant threat to gender equality in the UK. In the absence of committed gender equality advocates in the government, campaigning is, again, from the outside. This article presents some of the new strategies developed by individuals and organisations such as the Women's Budget Group and the Fawcett Society to fight against the cuts and considers the effectiveness of their approaches
David Cameron's ‘Problem’ with Women: Representing Women in the Coalition Government
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…
Policy Advocacy in Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Performance on Gendering Executive Attention
n Contains fulltext :\n 129684.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
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 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…
Gender and the Executive Branch
The executive branch of government constitutes the pinnacle of political power. In principle, presidents and prime ministers, along with their cabinets, set the policy agenda, debate, and deliberate policy initiatives; introduce legislation; and oversee the implementation of public policies. Executives are the most visible political actors, representing the public “face” of government. Until very recently, executives were also the most masculiniz…
Rules of Ministerial Recruitment
Ministerial office represents the pinnacle of political power. Quite rightly, politics and gender and comparative scholarship is paying increasing attention to women's access to political executives (Claveria 2014; Davis 1997; Escobar-Lemmon and Taylor-Robinson 2005; Krook and O'Brien 2012; Reynolds 1999; Siaroff 2000; Whitford, Wilkins, and Ball 2007). These studies develop and test a range of hypotheses relating to the demographic, socioeconomi…
What do women symbolize? Symbolic representation and cabinet appointments
Women’s presence in cabinets around the world has expanded considerably in the past two decades. All male cabinets are all but unthinkable in most democracies today. Yet existing studies of cabinet formation pay little systematic attention to the representative dimensions of cabinets. We argue that the concept of symbolic representation is useful for analyzing ministerial recruitment because cabinets are not mere collections of individuals with p…
Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender
Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender explores why men have been more likely than women to be appointed to cabinet, why gendered patterns of appointment vary cross-nationally, and why, over time, women’s inclusion in cabinets has grown significantly. The book is innovative in conceiving of cabinet formation as a gendered process governed by rules that empower and constrain presidents and prime ministers as selectors of cabinet ministers, and rules that…
What did the coalition government do for women? An analysis of gender equality policy agendas in the UK 2010–2015
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