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Women in Mexican politics : a study of representation in a renewed federal and democratic state / Fernanda Vidal Correa.
Van Pelt Library HQ1236.5.M6 V53 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vidal Correa, Fernanda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity--Mexico.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity.
- Women politicians.
- Mexico.
- Women politicians--Mexico.
- Federal government--Mexico.
- Federal government.
- Democracy--Mexico.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 122 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- This book offers an analysis of how women's participation is conducted in Mexico s political sphere. Federalization and decentralization processes can have a significant impact on women's participation and discrimination. By questioning the form in which a democratic state is built (that is, the degree of (de)centralization) the book looks to a set of forms and processes affecting women's political life. A decentralized form of state-government implies three levels of government in which women (or any other group of people) can have active participation: central-federal government, state-regional-province government, and local (municipalities) government. This book offers an analysis of how gender discrimination operates in a different way in each of these levels of government and the corresponding political activity. Policies that fight against gender discrimination and promote women's participation, in both administration and political parties, do not always operate cooperatively, and often exist in contradiction with each other.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The representation of women in Mexican states : an introduction to the research
- Pathways to gender parity : federal and local amendments, future judicial reviews
- Political parties and the representation of women
- The informal system : political networks, clientelism and political capital
- Women's conditions in Mexican state politics
- Glossary
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Vidal Correa, Fernanda, author. Women in mexican politics
- ISBN:
- 9781498534390
- 1498534392
- OCLC:
- 958798120
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