This book comes out of a conference in April of 1999 at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University on the topic of "Gender Parity and the Liberal Tradition: Proposals and Debates in Europe and the United States.” The essays are divided into three sections, each of which approaches from a different angle the central question of whether liberalism has failed women. The first section aims to frame the discussion by outlining the theoretical arguments for the amendments or revisions implied by the proponents of the Parity Movement in Europe and for the concerns raised by critics. The second describes recent changes in party rules, European legal framework, and national constitutions, as well as the gains made by women in response to rule change. The third section provides American perspectives on the lessons that parity advocates might draw from affirmative action policies and speculations about how parity rules would work in the American context.
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Jytte Klausen is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at Brandeis University and author of War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present.
Charles S. Maier is The Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard University and author of Disillusion: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany.
Charles S. Maier is The Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard University and author of Disillusion: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany.
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This book presents to English-speaking readers a concept for assuring group representation-one based on gender, however, not race or ethnicity-advocated by many in Europe, but generally rejected out of hand in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
communicative distrust, parity activists, uncrystallized interests, parity mandates, parity movement, positive discrimination strategies, parity democracy, pouvoir citoyennes, special representation rights, women shortlists, gender quotas, citizenship regime, descriptive representation, substantive representation, gender parity, multimember districts, equal opportunities unit, deliberative function, elected women, quota regulations, parity rules, women candidates, quota policies, equality between women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New Labour, New York, National Assembly, European Commission, Jytte Klausen, Pippa Norris, Third Way, Social Democrats, African American, Jane Mansbridge, Tony Blair, Basic Law, Claus Offe, European Parliament, Treaty of Rome, Jacques Chirac, Lionel Jospin, Oxford University Press, Anna Coote, Carol Swain, Council of Europe, Fabian Society, House of Commons, Princeton University Press New!
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communicative distrust, parity activists, uncrystallized interests, parity mandates, parity movement, positive discrimination strategies, parity democracy, pouvoir citoyennes, special representation rights, women shortlists, gender quotas, citizenship regime, descriptive representation, substantive representation, gender parity, multimember districts, equal opportunities unit, deliberative function, elected women, quota regulations, parity rules, women candidates, quota policies, equality between women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New Labour, New York, National Assembly, European Commission, Jytte Klausen, Pippa Norris, Third Way, Social Democrats, African American, Jane Mansbridge, Tony Blair, Basic Law, Claus Offe, European Parliament, Treaty of Rome, Jacques Chirac, Lionel Jospin, Oxford University Press, Anna Coote, Carol Swain, Council of Europe, Fabian Society, House of Commons, Princeton University Press New!
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