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- Erzeel, Silvia, et al.
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La professionnalisation des partis politiques en Belgique : vers l’intégration de la dimension de genre
- 2017
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Ingår i: La professionnalisation des luttes pour l’égalité : Genre et féminisme. ; , s. 191-212
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Political parties throughout Europe are witnessing a significant professionalization of their daily functioning. Professionalization refers to an institutional process “by which professionals become more central to an organization, in this case a party” (Webb & Kolodny 2006: 338). The centrality of professionals is most obvious in parties’ reliance on an expanding body of professional staff members and experts with specialized skills (a.o. marketing professionals, consultants, spin-doctors and public relations experts) performing traditional party functions and supporting the leadership in the management of the party. These professionals replace – or at least complement – member-volunteers and party bureaucrats in the party apparatus (Norris 2000). Although party professionalization is a phenomenon that has received considerable academic attention, research on the professionalization of Belgian political parties remains scarce. In this paper, we will study –in an explorative way– to what extent and how professionalization has taken/is taking place in the Belgian parties, focusing on gender equality. On the one hand, we will ‘map’ the presence of “gender professionals” in Belgian parties: who are they, what are their main tasks, to what extent is their presence institutionalized in the party and how has this changed over time? On the other hand, we will reflect on the consequences of the presence of “gender professionals” for the internal dynamics and power relations within parties. We conduct an in-depth case study of one particular policy domain, but we will reflect on the broader implications for processes of party professionalization in other domains as well. We explore the professionalization of gender equality in 11 Belgian parties based on new and original data (including document analysis and interviews) gathered by the authors in 2006 and 2014. The results show that party professionalization is overall limited. Although parties have included gender experts in their organization (for instance in study centres or through intra-party women’s groups), this gender expertise is often not structurally embedded: in many parties in Belgium its existence is not recognized by any formal rules and its functioning is not supported by any paid administrative staff.
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Problems of Post-Communism: The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe
- 2023
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Ingår i: Problems of Post-Communism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1075-8216 .- 1557-783X. ; 70:2
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Annan publikation (refereegranskat)abstract
- This special issue examines anti-gender politics in the specific geographical and cultural space of Eastern Europe. It investigates whether the region is just another battlefield for anti-gender politics, or a unique setting for specific developments and strategies, looking at the impact and the legacy of specific historical experiences, sociological and cultural characteristics. The contributions map out these complex developments, examining Czechia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, and Ukraine. In this manner, this special issue attempts both to unravel taken-for-granted and all-encompassing conceptual frameworks concerning anti-gender politics, and to articulate a more nuanced picture of these mobilizations.
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