Gretchen Bauer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 95585 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gretchen Bauer |
| PRENOMES | Gretchen |
| SOBRENOME | Bauer |
| ASSINATURA | BAUER G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4064-6220 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 256 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
“You Feel That You Can Make a Difference in the World”
Women are being appointed as cabinet ministers across West Africa in increasing numbers, albeit predominantly to lead “soft” rather than “hard” portfolios. The experiences of women cabinet ministers from five West African countries—The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria—help to nuance our understanding of women in cabinets around the world. Women cabinet ministers from these countries reveal a broader conception of “paths to power”…
Women in Politics in Africa
Remarkably, twenty-five years into the twenty-first century, there remains an enormous “political empowerment” gender gap between men and women around the world, even as the health and survival and educational attainment gender gaps are nearly closed, and the economic participation and opportunity gender gap is on the way to being closed. The political empowerment gender gap—like the others, a component of the Global Gender Gap Index (World Econo…
We See What Men Don't See
This article focuses on women in appointed political office in three West African countries-The Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone-in the aftermath of dictatorship or civil war and in a region that has trailed others in Africa in women's representation in political office. Through a set of semistructured interviews with former women cabinet ministers from across political parties and post-transition administrations and including other qualitative data…
Rethinking Women's Political Power in West Africa
Funding demands and gender in political recruitment
How do political parties in low- and high-cost institutional contexts respond to funding inequalities as a source of gender imbalance for those seeking elected office? We rely on a ‘most similar’ logic to answer this question and develop two categories of cost intensity comprised of three institutions – electoral system, candidate selection model and public funding. Our findings show that parties in both contexts see funding as a source of inequa…
The President's Prerogative”? The Cabinet Appointment Process in Ghana and the Implications for Gender Parity
This article seeks to understand why Ghana, unlike several other African countries, has seen relatively few women appointed as ministers to the cabinet since the transition to democracy. We draw on Annesley, Beckwith, and Franceschet's 2019 bookCabinets,Ministers and Gender, which provides an in-depth analysis of the cabinet appointment process in seven democracies (but no African cases) and demonstrates that the cabinet appointment process is ge…
Parliamentary Primaries After Democratic Transitions
Candidate selection procedures play a crucial role in shaping parliaments and influencing the quality of democracy. Yet, our understanding of what motivates parties to reform candidate selection mechanisms at specific points in time is limited. To address this gap, we examine the experience of Ghana’s National Democratic Congress (NDC), which reformed its selection procedures in 2015 allowing all party members to vote in primary elections for par…
Women in African Parliaments
Women in African Parliaments
We would rather be leaders than parliamentarians
Ghana, an emerging democracy, lags far behind in women’s representation in Parliament. This article, based on interviews with delegates, aspirants, candidates, Members of Parliament and potential female presidential candidates, suggests that women are dissuaded from standing for Parliament by the exorbitant ‘cost of politics’, humiliating ‘politics of insult’ and keen appreciation of Parliament’s limitations. Still, women may be eager to hold app…
What is wrong with a woman being chief?' Women Chiefs and Symbolic and Substantive Representation in Botswana
Across the globe women are accessing national legislatures and executives in unprecedented numbers. Over the last 25 years several African countries have led the way in women's representation in parliaments and, more recently, in cabinets. At the same time, governments and foreign donors are increasingly focusing on the role of traditional leaders in local-level politics as states democratize and decentralize across the continent. Once considered…
Gender and the Judiciary in Africa
A lot of head wraps”
Over the last more than two decades, political parties and governments across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have adopted electoral gender quotas for parliament at an astonishing rate – and with remarkable success as many sub-Saharan African countries have catapulted to the top in terms of women's representation in a single or lower house of parliament. During a first wave in East and Southern Africa (part of a global “second wave”), quotas were adopte…
Gender and the Judiciary in Africa
Gender quotas, democracy, and women's representation in Africa
The Postcolonial State in Africa
Journal Article The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960–2010 Get access The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960–2010 by Crawford Young Madison. New York, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 424 pp. Paper, $31.95. Gretchen Bauer Gretchen Bauer University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128, Issue 4, Wint…
Let there be a Balance
It has been 25 years since the National Resistance Movement took power in Uganda and ushered in an era of women's increased presence in African legislatures – at first in east and southern Africa and eventually beyond. In 2008, Uganda's neighbor Rwanda became the first country in the world to have more women than men in a chamber of parliament. In mid-2012, eight African countries were among the top 30 countries worldwide in terms of women's pres…
Politics in Southern Africa
Women in Executive Power
1. Introduction Gretchen Bauer and Manon Tremblay 2. Arab States Vania Carvalho Pinto 3. South and Southeast Asia Andrea Fleschenberg 4. Oceania Jennifer Curtin and Marian Sawer 5. Central and Eastern Europe Maxime Forest 6. Sub-Saharan Africa Gretchen Bauer 7. Latin America Tiffany D. Barnes and Mark P. Jones 8. North America Farida Jalalzai and Manon Tremblay 9. Western Europe Fiona Buckley and Yvonne Galligan 10. Nordic Countries Christina Ber…
Update on the Women's Movement in Botswana
Across Africa in the early twenty-first century, autonomous women's movements have transformed the political landscape. With their support, African women are lobbying for constitutional reforms, entering political office in unprecedented numbers, and initiating legislation to expand women's rights. African women's movements have been emboldened by changes in international and regional norms concerning women's rights and representation, a new avai…
Fifty/Fifty by 20201
During the last two decades large numbers of women have entered parliaments in several east and southern African countries. In late 2007, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa in southern Africa and Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda in east Africa all had national legislatures ranging from 25 to nearly 50 per cent women, placing them in the top 26 worldwide. This is far above the Sub-Saharan African and world averages of about 17 per cent women in a sin…
“Nothing to Lose but Their Subordination to the State”? Trade Unions in Namibia Fifteen Years after Independence
In the aftermath of World War II trade unions emerged in significant numbers and strength throughout Africa. In many African colonies they joined together with nascent nationalist movements to lead the struggle for political independence. For many organized labor movements, however, independence was no boon.1 Rather, in many instances, political independence in Africa led to the rapid demobilization of trade unions. This demobilization was accomp…
Women in the South African Parliament
Reviewed by: Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance Gretchen Bauer Britton, Hannah Evelyn . 2005. Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 198 pp. $35.00 (cloth). With its 2003 election, Rwanda catapulted to the top of the list of countries with high percentages of women in a single or lower house of parliament. Nearly half the seats in Rwanda's Chamb…
Women in African Parliaments
Working together across religious, ethnic, and class divisions, African women are helping to formulate legislation and foster democracies more inclusive of womens' interests. Women in African Parliaments explores this phenomenon, examining the impact and experiences of African women as they seek increased representation in national legislatures. The authors' carefully constructed case studies allow cross-national comparisons of the range of strat…
African Parliaments
Gender quotas, democracy, and women's representation in Africa
Let there be a Balance
It has been 25 years since the National Resistance Movement took power in Uganda and ushered in an era of women's increased presence in African legislatures – at first in east and southern Africa and eventually beyond. In 2008, Uganda's neighbor Rwanda became the first country in the world to have more women than men in a chamber of parliament. In mid-2012, eight African countries were among the top 30 countries worldwide in terms of women's pres…
The Postcolonial State in Africa
Journal Article The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960–2010 Get access The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960–2010 by Crawford Young Madison. New York, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 424 pp. Paper, $31.95. Gretchen Bauer Gretchen Bauer University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128, Issue 4, Wint…
Fifty/Fifty by 20201
During the last two decades large numbers of women have entered parliaments in several east and southern African countries. In late 2007, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa in southern Africa and Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda in east Africa all had national legislatures ranging from 25 to nearly 50 per cent women, placing them in the top 26 worldwide. This is far above the Sub-Saharan African and world averages of about 17 per cent women in a sin…
What is wrong with a woman being chief?' Women Chiefs and Symbolic and Substantive Representation in Botswana
Across the globe women are accessing national legislatures and executives in unprecedented numbers. Over the last 25 years several African countries have led the way in women's representation in parliaments and, more recently, in cabinets. At the same time, governments and foreign donors are increasingly focusing on the role of traditional leaders in local-level politics as states democratize and decentralize across the continent. Once considered…
Making Race and Nation
The President's Prerogative”? The Cabinet Appointment Process in Ghana and the Implications for Gender Parity
This article seeks to understand why Ghana, unlike several other African countries, has seen relatively few women appointed as ministers to the cabinet since the transition to democracy. We draw on Annesley, Beckwith, and Franceschet's 2019 bookCabinets,Ministers and Gender, which provides an in-depth analysis of the cabinet appointment process in seven democracies (but no African cases) and demonstrates that the cabinet appointment process is ge…
The Hand That Stirs the Pot Can Also Run the Country
In early 2004, 29% of Namibian Members of Parliament were women, putting Namibia fourth in continental Africa and seventeenth worldwide in terms of women's representation in a national legislature. This article sets out to determine how such a high percentage of women has been elected to the National Assembly in Namibia since independence. It suggests that electoral gains have been achieved through a combination of factors: the use of a closed li…
Update on the Women's Movement in Botswana
Across Africa in the early twenty-first century, autonomous women's movements have transformed the political landscape. With their support, African women are lobbying for constitutional reforms, entering political office in unprecedented numbers, and initiating legislation to expand women's rights. African women's movements have been emboldened by changes in international and regional norms concerning women's rights and representation, a new avai…
Namibia in the First Decade of Independence
In the context of the continuing debate between 'optimists and pessimists', this article seeks to evaluate democracy in Namibia in the first decade of independence. Utilizing a minimalist conception of democracy, the article investigates the extent to which the country's democratic constitution has been respected and how the multiparty political system has fared. It considers the record of free and fair elections, and the status of the media and …
We would rather be leaders than parliamentarians
Ghana, an emerging democracy, lags far behind in women’s representation in Parliament. This article, based on interviews with delegates, aspirants, candidates, Members of Parliament and potential female presidential candidates, suggests that women are dissuaded from standing for Parliament by the exorbitant ‘cost of politics’, humiliating ‘politics of insult’ and keen appreciation of Parliament’s limitations. Still, women may be eager to hold app…
African Parliaments
Funding demands and gender in political recruitment
How do political parties in low- and high-cost institutional contexts respond to funding inequalities as a source of gender imbalance for those seeking elected office? We rely on a ‘most similar’ logic to answer this question and develop two categories of cost intensity comprised of three institutions – electoral system, candidate selection model and public funding. Our findings show that parties in both contexts see funding as a source of inequa…
Labor and Democracy in Namibia, 1971-1996
A lot of head wraps”
Over the last more than two decades, political parties and governments across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have adopted electoral gender quotas for parliament at an astonishing rate – and with remarkable success as many sub-Saharan African countries have catapulted to the top in terms of women's representation in a single or lower house of parliament. During a first wave in East and Southern Africa (part of a global “second wave”), quotas were adopte…
Affirmative Action in Namibia
Women in the South African Parliament
Reviewed by: Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance Gretchen Bauer Britton, Hannah Evelyn . 2005. Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 198 pp. $35.00 (cloth). With its 2003 election, Rwanda catapulted to the top of the list of countries with high percentages of women in a single or lower house of parliament. Nearly half the seats in Rwanda's Chamb…
Last Steps to Uhuru
Labor and Democracy in Namibia, 1971-1996
Katutura
Making Race and Nation
Political Parties and Interest Groups in South West Africa (Namibia)
Democratization in Late Twentieth-Century Africa
Preface Introduction: Understanding Democratization by Jean-Germain Gros Democratization in Malawi: Its Roots and Prospects by Sam A. Mchombo Cameroon: A Flawed Transition to Democracy by Tatah Mentan Nigeria: Militarization and Perpetual Transition by Julius O. Ihonvbere Democracy, State-Building, and Nations in Ethiopia: 1974-95 by Kassahun Berhanu Leadership and Democratization: The Case of Tanzania by Jean-Germain Gros Elections and Democrati…
Affirmative Action in Namibia
New Notes on Kaoko
Namibia in the First Decade of Independence
In the context of the continuing debate between 'optimists and pessimists', this article seeks to evaluate democracy in Namibia in the first decade of independence. Utilizing a minimalist conception of democracy, the article investigates the extent to which the country's democratic constitution has been respected and how the multiparty political system has fared. It considers the record of free and fair elections, and the status of the media and …
Creating Germans Abroad
The Hand That Stirs the Pot Can Also Run the Country
In early 2004, 29% of Namibian Members of Parliament were women, putting Namibia fourth in continental Africa and seventeenth worldwide in terms of women's representation in a national legislature. This article sets out to determine how such a high percentage of women has been elected to the National Assembly in Namibia since independence. It suggests that electoral gains have been achieved through a combination of factors: the use of a closed li…
Women in African Parliaments
Working together across religious, ethnic, and class divisions, African women are helping to formulate legislation and foster democracies more inclusive of womens' interests. Women in African Parliaments explores this phenomenon, examining the impact and experiences of African women as they seek increased representation in national legislatures. The authors' carefully constructed case studies allow cross-national comparisons of the range of strat…
African Parliaments
“Nothing to Lose but Their Subordination to the State”? Trade Unions in Namibia Fifteen Years after Independence
In the aftermath of World War II trade unions emerged in significant numbers and strength throughout Africa. In many African colonies they joined together with nascent nationalist movements to lead the struggle for political independence. For many organized labor movements, however, independence was no boon.1 Rather, in many instances, political independence in Africa led to the rapid demobilization of trade unions. This demobilization was accomp…
Women in the South African Parliament
Reviewed by: Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance Gretchen Bauer Britton, Hannah Evelyn . 2005. Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 198 pp. $35.00 (cloth). With its 2003 election, Rwanda catapulted to the top of the list of countries with high percentages of women in a single or lower house of parliament. Nearly half the seats in Rwanda's Chamb…
Fifty/Fifty by 20201
During the last two decades large numbers of women have entered parliaments in several east and southern African countries. In late 2007, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa in southern Africa and Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda in east Africa all had national legislatures ranging from 25 to nearly 50 per cent women, placing them in the top 26 worldwide. This is far above the Sub-Saharan African and world averages of about 17 per cent women in a sin…
Politics in Southern Africa
Women in Executive Power
1. Introduction Gretchen Bauer and Manon Tremblay 2. Arab States Vania Carvalho Pinto 3. South and Southeast Asia Andrea Fleschenberg 4. Oceania Jennifer Curtin and Marian Sawer 5. Central and Eastern Europe Maxime Forest 6. Sub-Saharan Africa Gretchen Bauer 7. Latin America Tiffany D. Barnes and Mark P. Jones 8. North America Farida Jalalzai and Manon Tremblay 9. Western Europe Fiona Buckley and Yvonne Galligan 10. Nordic Countries Christina Ber…
Update on the Women's Movement in Botswana
Across Africa in the early twenty-first century, autonomous women's movements have transformed the political landscape. With their support, African women are lobbying for constitutional reforms, entering political office in unprecedented numbers, and initiating legislation to expand women's rights. African women's movements have been emboldened by changes in international and regional norms concerning women's rights and representation, a new avai…
Let there be a Balance
It has been 25 years since the National Resistance Movement took power in Uganda and ushered in an era of women's increased presence in African legislatures – at first in east and southern Africa and eventually beyond. In 2008, Uganda's neighbor Rwanda became the first country in the world to have more women than men in a chamber of parliament. In mid-2012, eight African countries were among the top 30 countries worldwide in terms of women's pres…
Gender quotas, democracy, and women's representation in Africa
The Postcolonial State in Africa
Journal Article The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960–2010 Get access The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960–2010 by Crawford Young Madison. New York, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 424 pp. Paper, $31.95. Gretchen Bauer Gretchen Bauer University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128, Issue 4, Wint…
Gender and the Judiciary in Africa
A lot of head wraps”
Over the last more than two decades, political parties and governments across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have adopted electoral gender quotas for parliament at an astonishing rate – and with remarkable success as many sub-Saharan African countries have catapulted to the top in terms of women's representation in a single or lower house of parliament. During a first wave in East and Southern Africa (part of a global “second wave”), quotas were adopte…
Gender and the Judiciary in Africa
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