1st Edition
States of Democracy Gender and Politics in the European Union
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Foreword 1. States of Democracy: An Overview Yvonne Galligan 2. Formulating the Goods and Services Directive in the European Union: A lost opportunity for gender equality? Yvonne Galligan and Sara Clavero 3. Topographies of gender democracy in Austria Nora Gresch and Birgit Sauer 4. States of gender democracy: Variation on a theme in Finland Hanna Kaisa Hoppania and Anne Maria Holli 5. Gender expectations and state inertia: the case of Greece Yota Papageorgiou 6. Making a sow's ear from a silk purse': gender democracy in Hungary Roza Vajda 7. National and European gender equality legislation: a mismatch of agendas and hesitant feminism in Lithuania Irmina Matonytė 8. Gender democracy in Poland: an empty shell? Katarzyna Zielińska 9. Gender democracy in Spain: undemocratic compliance and the domestication of European law Sara Clavero 10. Why democracy? On the relationship between gender democracy and gender equality in the European Union Cathrine Holst Bibliography Glossary
Biography
Yvonne Galligan is Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen’s University Belfast.
