Gender and State Architectures
The Impact of Governance Structures on Women's Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6354588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill Vickers (Carleton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 254-262 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics & Gender (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-923X • E-ISSN: 1743-9248 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1743923x11000092 |
| OpenAlex | W2313820225 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 10 |
This essay explores gender scholarship about how state architectures affect women's politics. A rapidly growing literature addresses the effects of vertical and horizontal power divisions in federations. While just one in five states is a federation, federations govern 40% of the world's population (Watts 2008). Globalization and neoliberal ideology foster regionalization, devolution, and increased influence by international agencies, and so more people experience multilevel governance (MLG) in unitary states, too. Hence, feminist scholars now increasingly consider the impact of state architectures. The field's core idea is that while socioeconomic and ideological forces shape gender/power relations, governments and movements respond from within specific state architectures. Related debates involve how institutional designs shape opportunity structures, and how feminists respond to federal diversity
Corporate governance · Economics · Ideology · Opportunity structures · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Unitary state · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.85 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |