Political Institutions
In: European Politics: An Introduction, S. 94-114
In: European Politics: An Introduction, S. 94-114
In: Failed States and Institutional Decay : Understanding Instability and Poverty in the Developing World
In: Principles of European Constitutional Law
In: Soviet Politics and Political Science, S. 52-70
In: Journal of Theoretical Politics, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 301-308
Introduces a special journal issue on "Information and Political Institutions". [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]
In: Comparative political institutions
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 215-233
ISSN: 1537-5927
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In: Korean Journal of International Relations, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 115-141
ISSN: 2713-6868
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 68, Heft 3, S. 543-564
ISSN: 1467-9248
Understanding the role of institutions can help explain why gender equality policies often fail and why the efforts of gender equality advocates are frequently frustrated. Focusing on micro-foundations and using cases from comparative politics, the article builds a model that specifies the mechanisms whereby political institutions are systematically gendered. Political opportunities and outcomes are shaped not only by rules 'about gender' but also by seemingly neutral rules that have 'gendered effects', due to their interaction with institutions outside the realm of formal politics. Rules shape behaviour in gendered ways through mechanisms of regulation, obligation and persuasion. Actors reproduce gendered institutions through enacting rules, but they also generate change through adapting, resisting or reforming them. The article specifies concepts and methods for researching how political institutions are gendered within and across political systems. It also identifies points of intervention for those seeking to build more gender-just political institutions.
In: Australian journal of political science: journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 300
ISSN: 1036-1146
MacIntyre reviews 'Australian Political Institutions, 5th edn' by Gwyneth Singleton, Don Aitkin, Brian Jinks and John Warhurst.
In: European journal of political theory: EJPT
ISSN: 1741-2730
Political philosophers rarely take on the topic of political corruption, despite the fact that corruption is so costly to human wellbeing, and so clearly separates well-governed from poorly governed polities. Ceva and Ferretti's book is the most complete attempt to remedy this deficit to date. Their key contribution is to conceptualize institutions in such a way that the offices they define link clearly to public ethics. Officeholders are accountable for their power mandate, not just within a hierarchy, but ethically, because their duties serve the public purposes that justify the institution. This said, their approach works best for impartial institutions in which the public duties of offices are clear and actionable, such as professional bureaucracies. We also need an ethically driven conception of political corruption for political institutions that contain and channel political partiality, especially democratic institutions within which the ethical purposes of public legislation are argued, deliberated, and voted. Extending a public ethics account of political corruption to democratic institutions can and should be a next step in this important project.
In: Routledge Revivals Series
First published in 1958, Russian Political Institutions is intended primarily to meet the need of university students for a good account of the political institutions of the Soviet Union in terms similar to those used in their study of other countries.