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Toxic Parliaments: And What Can Be Done About Them: Gender and Politics

Autor Marian Sawer, Maria Maley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mai 2024
This open access book shows how the #MeToo movement and revelations of sexual harassment and bullying have spurred on reform of the parliamentary workplace in four Westminster countries – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK.  Long-standing conventions included extreme power imbalances between parliamentarians and staff and a lack of professionalised employment practices. Codes of conduct and independent complaints bodies were resisted on grounds of parliamentary privilege: the ballot box was supposedly the best means of holding parliamentarians accountable for their conduct. The taken-for-granted status of adversarial politics and its silencing effects also rendered gendered mistreatment invisible.  The authors examine the institutional backdrop and the different trajectories of reform in the four countries, with most detail on the dramatic developments in Australia after angry women marched on parliament houses in 2021. They show how the different parliaments have responded to escalating evidence of misconduct, the role of policy borrowing, and the possibilities of lasting institutional change.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031483301
ISBN-10: 3031483308
Pagini: 104
Ilustrații: XVII, 125 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Gender and Politics

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. Women arrive in the parliamentary workplace.- 3. Institutional norms and the cost of doing politics.- 4. The arrival of #MeToo breaks the silence.- 5. Trying to turn parliament into a model workplace: UK, Canada, New Zealand.- 6. Australia catches up and what hope for the future?

Notă biografică

Marian Sawer is Emeritus Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University, Australia.
Maria Maley is Senior Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University, Australia.


Textul de pe ultima copertă

This open access book shows how the #MeToo movement and revelations of sexual harassment and bullying have spurred on reform of the parliamentary workplace in four Westminster countries – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK.  Long-standing conventions included extreme power imbalances between parliamentarians and staff and a lack of professionalised employment practices. Codes of conduct and independent complaints bodies were resisted on grounds of parliamentary privilege: the ballot box was supposedly the best means of holding parliamentarians accountable for their conduct. The taken-for-granted status of adversarial politics and its silencing effects also rendered gendered mistreatment invisible.  The authors examine the institutional backdrop and the different trajectories of reform in the four countries, with most detail on the dramatic developments in Australia after angry women marched on parliament houses in 2021. They show how the different parliaments have responded to escalating evidence of misconduct, the role of policy borrowing, and the possibilities of lasting institutional change.


Caracteristici

Examines how Westminster parliamentary systems have dealt with harassment in the workplace Assesses the possibilities of lasting institutional change Shows how different parliaments have responded to increased evidence of misconduct This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access