Aiding Empowerment: Democracy Promotion and Gender Equality in Politics

Author:   Saskia Brechenmacher (Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) ,  Katherine Mann (PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Scholar, PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Scholar, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780197694282


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   22 July 2024
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Author:   Saskia Brechenmacher (Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) ,  Katherine Mann (PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Scholar, PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Scholar, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9780197694282


ISBN 10:   0197694284
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   22 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Abbreviations Acknowledgements Part I - Situating the Inquiry 1. Introduction 2. The Global Aid Ecosystem 3. Introducing the Cases Part II - The State of the Field 4. First Generation: Getting Women in the Room 5. Second Generation: Transforming Systems 6. The Limits of Candidate Training 7. Confronting the Gatekeepers 8. From Presence to Power Part III - New Frontiers 9. Tackling Patriarchal Gender Norms 10. Widening the Lens 11. Toward a Different Assistance Model 12. Building Gender-inclusive Democracies Notes Index

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Saskia Brechenmacher is a Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a PhD candidate and Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on gender, civil society, and democratic governance, with a particular focus on women's political participation in new democracies. She has advised major governmental and private funders on strategies to promote women's political empowerment and support civil society activism and currently serves on the board of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law. She is a 2017 Atlantic-Brücke Young Leader and previously worked for the World Peace Foundation, Carnegie Europe, and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in London. Her writing has been published in Foreign Policy, Just Security, World Politics Review, The National Interest, The Hill, Open Democracy, and other outlets. Katherine Mann is a PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines the role of gender in conflict, armed group behavior, and conflict-related sexual and reproductive violence. Previously, she was a Research Analyst in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also held positions as a Junior Fellow at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, a Managing Editor at the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and a Visiting Researcher at the Universidad de los Andes. Alongside her research, she has worked with non-governmental organizations to prevent political violence and support civic activism. She received her MPhil from the University of Oxford and her B.A. from the University of Georgia. Her writing has been published in Foreign Policy, Just Security, and other outlets.

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