Editors:
- Offers a nuanced and complex understanding of how and when gender matters for corruption and good governance
- Theoretically challenging while rooted in rich empirical data
- Includes in-depth case studies, experiments and Large-N studies covering several regions of the world
Part of the book series: Political Corruption and Governance (PCG)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The link between gender and corruption has been studied since the late 1990s. Debates have been heated and scholars accused of bringing forward stereotypical beliefs about women as the “fair” sex. Policy proposals for bringing more women to office have been criticized for promoting unrealistic quick-fix solutions to deeply rooted problems. This edited volume advances the knowledge surrounding the link between gender and corruption by including studies where the historical roots of corruption are linked to gender and by contextualizing the exploration of relationships, for example by distinguishing between democracies versus authoritarian states and between the electoral arena versus the administrative branch of government—the bureaucracy. Taken together, the chapters display nuances and fine-grained understandings. The book highlights that gender equality processes, rather than the exclusionary categories of “women” and “men”, should be at the forefront of analysis, and that developments strengthening the position of women vis-à-vis men affect the quality of government.
Keywords
- gender and corruption
- women and corruption
- historical roots of corruption
- corruption research
- corruption and governance
- women in politics
- gender and politics
- quality of government
- gender quotas and corruption
- women in elections
- gender and bureaucracy
- women and anti-corruption measures
- political corruption in USA
- political corruption in Brazil
- political corruption in Mexico
- political corruption in Russia
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Helena Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud
About the editors
Helena Stensöta is Associate Professor at the Quality of Government Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Lena Wängnerud is Professor at the Quality of Government Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and Corruption
Book Subtitle: Historical Roots and New Avenues for Research
Editors: Helena Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud
Series Title: Political Corruption and Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70929-1
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: 978-3-319-70928-4Published: 06 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10002-5Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70929-1Published: 27 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-5449
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 301
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Politics and Gender, Governance and Government, Comparative Politics