Gender, Institutions, and Change in Bachelet's Chile
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Georgina Waylen is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. She has researched and published widely on various aspects of gender and politics, particularly transitions to democracy and political economy. She is the author of Gender in Third World Politics (1996) and Engendering Transitions: Women's Mobilization, Institutions and Gender Outcomes (2007).
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Introduction: Gender, Institutions and Change in Bachelet's Chile; Georgina Waylen
1. Gendering Politics, Institutions and the Executive: Bachelet in Context; Georgina Waylen
2. Bachelet is Back: Reform Prospects and the Future of Democracy in Chile; Peter M. Siavelis
3. Disrupting Informal Institutions? Cabinet Formation in Chile in 2006 and 2014; Susan Franceschet
4. Promoting Gender Equality: Michelle Bachelet and Formal and Informal Change within the Chilean Presidency; Gwynn Thomas
5. Opportunities and constraints on gender-egalitarian policy change: Michelle Bachelet's social protection agenda (2006-2010); Silke Staab
6. Institutional Constraints on Engendering the health sector in Bachelet's Chile; Jasmine Gideon and Gabriela Alvarez Minte
7. Formal and informal institutional challenges to women's reproductive Rights: Emergency Contraception and the Constitutional Tribunal in Chile; Carmen Sepúlveda-Zelaya
8. Comparing Michelle Bachelet's Two Presidencies: Continuity or Change?; Georgina Waylen
Postscript; María de los Ángeles Fernández Ramil