Making Gender Salient - From Gender Quota Laws to Policy

Do gender quota laws - policies that mandate women's inclusion on parties' candidate slates - affect policy outcomes? Making Gender Salient tackles this question by presenting a new theory of when and how gender quotas impact policy. The book tests this theory using mixed methods, with a particular emphasis on Western Europe.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. When Do Quotas Matter? A Theory of the Representation of Cross-Cutting Interests; 3. What Do Women Want? Gender Gaps in Preferences; 4. The First Stage of Policy Change: The Effects of Quotas on Party Priorities; 5. The Effects of Gender Quota Laws on Work-Family Policies; 6. How Gender Quota Laws Change Work-Family Policies; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Ana Catalano Weeks is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics, Languages, & International Studies at the University of Bath.

Summary

Do gender quota laws – policies that mandate women's inclusion on parties' candidate slates – affect policy outcomes? Making Gender Salient tackles this question by presenting a new theory of when and how gender quotas impact policy. The book tests this theory using mixed methods, with a particular emphasis on Western Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Catalano Weeks
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781009167833
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0916783-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups