New Institutionalism Through a Gender Lens: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism?
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New institutionalism (NI) may no longer qualify as being ‘new’, but since re-emphasizing institutions as a central explanatory variable in political analysis over two decades ago, it continues to provide scholars with a useful perspective through which to analyse political dynamics and outcomes that shape everyday life. The renewed focus on institutions has rebalanced the structure/agency scales back toward the former without losing important insights about the role and impact of political actors. NI has allowed for greater understanding about the co-constitutive nature of politics: the various ways in which actors bring about or resist change in institutions; and the way institutions shape the nature of actors’ behaviour through the construction of rules, norms and policies.
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Institutional analyses examine structural barriers to women's political participation but often undertheorize the agency through which transformative female leaders navigate and reshape these institutions.
“Second, institutional analyses (Krook, 2010; Mackay et al., 2010) examine structural barriers to women's political participation but often undertheorize the agency through which transformative female leaders navigate and reshape these institutions.”
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- Authors
- Mackay, F., Kenny, M., & Chappell, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Chappell, Louise
- Venue
- International Political Science Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-11
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 573-588
- ISSN
- 0192-5121 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-373X
- OpenAlex
- W2111741047
- Cited by
- 738
- References
- 85
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- FWCI
- 10.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Political Science Review (publishedVersion)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/G022887/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Politics and Representation
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Science Research and Education
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Keywords
- new institutionalism, feminist institutionalism, gender, institutions, structure and agency, political actors, institutional change, rules and norms, gender and politics
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