Gender, Institutions, and Change in Bachelet’s Chile (eBook)

G. Waylen (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XV, 244 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-50198-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Michele Bachelet, Chile's first female president, was elected with an explicit gender agenda in 2006 and then reelected in 2013. This volume focuses on Bachelet's efforts to introduce progressive measures and the constraints that she has faced in a context where both formal and informal political institutions can act as barriers to change.

Gabriela Alvarez Minte is researching for the PhD dissertation on the resistances to women's sexual and reproductive right in Chile at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. María de los Ángeles Fernández Ramil is currently the head of the Gender Unit in SEGPRES (Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia) in Chile. Susan Franceschet is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. Jasmine Gideon is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Carmen Sepúlveda-Zelaya is an ERC Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK, on the Understanding Institutional Change: A Gender Perspective Advanced Grant. Peter Siavelis is Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University, USA. Silke Staab works as a research specialist with UN Women. Gwynn Thomas is Associate Professor of Global Gender Studies in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA.

Autor

Georgina Waylen is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. She has researched and published widely on various aspects of gender and politics, particularly transitions to democracy and political economy. She is the author of Gender in Third World Politics (1996) and Engendering Transitions: Women's Mobilization, Institutions and Gender Outcomes (2007).

Inhalt

Introduction: Gender, Institutions and Change in Bachelet's Chile; Georgina Waylen1. Gendering Politics, Institutions and the Executive: Bachelet in Context; Georgina Waylen2. Bachelet is Back: Reform Prospects and the Future of Democracy in Chile; Peter M. Siavelis3. Disrupting Informal Institutions? Cabinet Formation in Chile in 2006 and 2014; Susan Franceschet4. Promoting Gender Equality: Michelle Bachelet and Formal and Informal Change within the Chilean Presidency; Gwynn Thomas5. Opportunities and constraints on gender-egalitarian policy change: Michelle Bachelet's social protection agenda (2006-2010); Silke Staab6. Institutional Constraints on Engendering the health sector in Bachelet's Chile; Jasmine Gideon and Gabriela Alvarez Minte7. Formal and informal institutional challenges to women's reproductive Rights: Emergency Contraception and the Constitutional Tribunal in Chile; Carmen Sepúlveda-Zelaya8. Comparing Michelle Bachelet's Two Presidencies: Continuity or Change?; Georgina WaylenPostscript; María de los Ángeles Fernández Ramil

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Americas
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Americas
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 244 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Bachelet • Chile • Constitution • Democracy • Executive • executives • Gender • Institution • Institutions • LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS • Policy • Political Science • Politics • President • Social Science • Women
• ISBN-10: 1-137-50198-7 / 1137501987
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-50198-1 / 9781137501981