Gender, Institutions and Political Representation Reproducing Male Dominance in Europe's New Democracies /

• Main Author: Chiva, Cristina (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Gender and Politics,
• Subjects: Europe-Politics and government.; Identity politics.; Comparative politics.; European Politics.; Politics and Gender.; Comparative Politics.

This book traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout the region. Post-communist Europe has long raised...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Establishing Male Dominance: Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic Representation
• Candidate Selection and Male Dominance in Europe's New Democracies
• Reproducing Male Dominance: the Role of Incumbency
• Reproducing Male Dominance: the Role of Electoral Systems
• Reproducing Male Dominance: Asymmetric Institutionalisation in New Democracies
• Breaking Male Dominance: Institutional Change and Political Representation
•  Conclusions.