Women and Representation in Local Government : International Case Studies (Hardcover)

1. Introduction Barbara Pini and Paula McDonald Part 1: Women’s Representation in Local Government: Facilitators and Constraints 2. Moving through the Pipeline: Women’s Representation in Municipal Government in the New England Region of the United States Paige Ransford and MerylThomson 3. Women in Local Assemblies: Rare Guests or (Almost) Equal Partners? An Analysis of the Causes of Women’s Underrepresentation in the German County Councils Raphael Magin Part 2: Strategies to Increase Women’s Representation in Local Government 4. Women and Local Politics in Spain: Exploring Gender Regimes and Biased Party Candidate Selection Processes Tania Verge 5. Making it Happen in Practice: Organized Efforts to Recruit Rural Women for Local Government Leadership Louise Carbert 6. Missing from the Picture: Women’s Initiatives in English Local Government Wendy Stokes Part 3: Making a Difference? The Descriptive and Substantive Representation of Women in Local Government 7. How Gender Shapes Local Party Politics: The Case of Belgium Petra Meier and Dries Verlet 8. Critical Acts and Critical Contexts: Understanding the Substantive Representation of Women at the Regional Level in France Katherine Opello 9. Transforming Local Politics? The Impact of Gender Quotas in Finland Anne Maria Holli Part 4: Gender and a Changing Local Government Sector 10. Gendering Local Government Amalgamations: An Australian Case Study Denise Conroy 11. Women in New Zealand Local Government: The Effect of Reform on Women’s Presence in Leadership Marianne Tremaine and Jean Drage 12. New Public Management and Gender in Swedish Local Government Gun Hedlund