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Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe

Strategies, Challenges and Future Research

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Editors:
  1. Amy C. Alexander

    1. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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  2. Catherine Bolzendahl

    1. University of California, Irvine, USA

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  3. Farida Jalalzai

    1. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA

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  • Assesses the degree of women's empowerment across a variety of political roles, such as legislators, prime ministers, local officials, and cabinet ministers
  • Written by leading scholars covering a broad geographical range to compare the experience of women across the globe
  • Contributes to the development of policies to further women’s political empowerment

Part of the book series: Gender and Politics (GAP)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction to Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment Across the Globe: Strategies, Challenges, and Future Research

    • Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai
    Pages 1-25

  3. Women’s Political Empowerment Through Public Opinion Research: The Citizen Perspective

    • Amy C. Alexander, Hilde Coffé
    Pages 27-53

  4. The Status of Women’s Political Empowerment Worldwide

    • Senem Ertan, Catalina Monroy, Juan Pablo Vallejo, Germán Romero, Ana Catalina Erazo
    Pages 55-76

  5. Intersectionality and Women’s Political Empowerment Worldwide

    • Melanie M. Hughes, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow
    Pages 77-96

  6. Social Movements as Women’s Political Empowerment: The Case for Measurement

    • Kathleen M. Fallon, Heidi E. Rademacher
    Pages 97-116

  7. Women’s Empowerment at the Local Level

    • Aksel Sundström, Lena Wängnerud
    Pages 117-137

  8. Electing Women to National Legislatures

    • Diana Z. O’Brien, Jennifer M. Piscopo
    Pages 139-163

  9. Legislatures as Gendered Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment as Political Elites

    • Catherine Bolzendahl
    Pages 165-186

  10. The Empowerment of Women in Diplomacy

    • Ann Towns, Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Birgitta Niklasson
    Pages 187-205

  11. Measuring Women’s Judicial Empowerment as Part of Political Empowerment

    • Sally J. Kenney
    Pages 207-227

  12. Women Cabinet Ministers in Highly Visible Posts and Empowerment of Women: Are the Two Related?

    • Tiffany D. Barnes, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
    Pages 229-255

  13. Women Heads of State and Government

    • Farida Jalalzai
    Pages 257-282

  14. Conclusions and Further Directions

    • Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai
    Pages 283-291

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 293-303
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About this book

This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women’s political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women’s political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation for benchmarking and understanding all political empowerment gains across the globe. Chapters improve our global understanding of women's political empowerment through cross-national comparisons, a synthesis of methodological approaches across varied levels of politics, and attention to the ways gender intersects with myriad factors in shaping women’s political empowerment. This book is an indispensable resource for scholars of politics and gender, as well as being relevant to a global scholarly and policy community.

Reviews

“In this remarkable volume, Alexander, Bolzendahl and Jalazai have collected insights from an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars and practitioners to interrogate the concept, “women’s political empowerment.” What is it? Why does it matter for politics, governance, and women’s lives?  And how should it be analyzed?  The resulting comprehensive collection moves well beyond the usual offering of pithy development goals or simplistic measures to critically question variations in how empowerment is articulated, understood and enacted on the ground.  It further investigates women’s participation in multiple areas of governance—including ministries, judicial systems, and diplomatic missions.  Without doubt, this is the book that all scholars of gender, politics, and empowerment must have on their shelves.” (Professor Jocelyn Viterna, Harvard University, USA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Amy C. Alexander

  • University of California, Irvine, USA

    Catherine Bolzendahl

  • Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA

    Farida Jalalzai

About the editors

Amy C. Alexander is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Research Fellow with the Quality of Government Institute.

 Catherine Bolzendahl is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

 Farida Jalalzai is the Hannah Atkins Endowed Chair and Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University, USA.

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe

  • Book Subtitle: Strategies, Challenges and Future Research

  • Editors: Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai

  • Series Title: Gender and Politics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64006-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64005-1Published: 27 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87697-9Published: 05 September 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64006-8Published: 16 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2662-5814

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-5822

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 303

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Politics and Gender, Democracy, Legislative and Executive Politics

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