Overview
- Studies civil society actors driving change to policies that affect women and their well being in Arab society
- Explores attempts to influence public policy through the lens of women movements activism and case studies in Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen
- Remedies significant gaps in the body knowledge about politics and policymaking in the Arab world
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Arab uprisings
- civil society
- women's rights
- collective action
- social movements and change
- political participation
- Islamic Feminism
- Arab world
- Domestic Violence
- Multiple Streams Framework
- Policy Entrepreneurship
- Civil Society Organizations
- Advocacy
- Political Uncertainty
- Lebanon and Policy-Making
- Soulaliyate movement
- Advocacy Coalition Framework
- patriarchal values
- Yemen and Policy-Making
- Morocco and Policy-Making
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Robert Hoppe is Professor of Knowledge and Public Policy in the Faculty of Management and Governance, Twente University, the Netherlands. He is also Senior Nonresidential Fellow of the American University of Beirut’s (AUB) Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Relations, Lebanon.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women, Civil Society and Policy Change in the Arab World
Editors: Nasser Yassin, Robert Hoppe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02089-7
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), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02088-0Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02089-7Published: 19 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 180
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Middle Eastern Politics, Politics and Gender, Culture and Gender, Social Structure, Social Inequality