Informal Institutions, Institutional Change, and Gender Equality

Georgina Waylen

doi:10.1177/1065912913510360

Informal Institutions, Institutional Change, and Gender Equality

Georgina Waylen

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This paper makes two claims: insights from gender research improve understandings of informal institutions and institutional change, and studying informal institutions helps scholars understand the gap between formal institutional change and outcomes. Informed by institutional analysis and feminist institutionalist scholarship, it explores the relationship between informal institutions, institutional change, and gender equality, using gender equality to scrutinize issues central to institutional change, demonstrating that institutional analyses improve when gender dynamics are incorporated. Showing the gendering of power relations highlights power in institutional change in new ways, improving understandings of why institutional change rarely happens as intended by institutional designers. © 2013 University of Utah.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	212-223
Number of pages	11
Journal	Political Research Quarterly
Volume	67
Issue number	1
Early online date	18 Nov 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912913510360
Publication status	Published - Mar 2014

Keywords

feminist institutionalism
formal institutions
gender equality
informal institutions

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Understanding Institutional Change - a Gender Perspective (UIC)
Waylen, G. (PI), Gains, F. (CoI), Armitage, F. (Researcher), Armitage, F. (Researcher), Jenkins, L. (Researcher), Johnson, R. (Researcher), Mcleod, L. (Researcher), Sepulveda, C. (Researcher), Chappell, L. (Researcher), Lowndes, V. (Researcher) & Mackay, F. (Researcher)
1/06/12 → 31/05/17
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