- 194 pages
- English
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About this book
The multi-layered political system of the European Union offers a unique environment for the study of comparative democracy. Its policies seek to give effect to an agreed range of values, including that of gender equality.
This book explores gender equality and democratic politics in Europe. It discusses how democratic politics engages with gender equality in the European Union and examines what happens when a core democratic value of the European Union, equality between women and men, is given policy effect in supra-national and domestic level politics. It asks how embedded is this value in democratic politics and what degree of gender equality is expressed in this environment. The collection brings to light the gendered nature of democratic politics, offering a critical gaze on the workings of modern democracy in Europe.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of democracy, European studies, gender, and key to courses seeking to incorporate a deeper gender perspective or evaluating democracy and democratic performance in institutions and decision-making.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Routledge studies on democratising Europe
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 States of democracy: an overview
- 2 Formulating the Goods and Services Directive in the European Union: a lost opportunity for gender equality?
- 3 Topographies of gender democracy in Austria
- 4 States of gender democracy: variations on a theme in Finland
- 5 Gender expectations and state inertia: the case of Greece
- 6 'Making a sow's ear from a silk purse': gender democracy in Hungary
- 7 National and European gender equality legislation: a mismatch of agendas and hesitant feminism in Lithuania
- 8 Gender democracy in Poland: an empty shell?
- 9 Gender democracy in Spain: undemocratic compliance and the domestication of European law
- 10 Why democracy? On the relationship between gender democracy and gender equality in the European Union
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index