Essays about: "critical institutionalism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 essays containing the words critical institutionalism.

1. 1. GENDER EQUALITY IN THE EU IN TIMES OF CRISIS: SIDELINED OR SUPPORTED?

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Katarina Trampush; [2023-02-06]
   Keywords : European Union; gender; gender equality; crisis; Covid-19; Global Financial Crisis; historical institutionalism;

   Abstract : Despite the claimed prioritization of democratic values such as gender equality, the EU is frequently criticized for sidelining gender equality promotion in times of crisis. The European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP) created during the Global Financial Crisis is claimed to have neglected to consider gender, supposedly setting the tone for future economic crisis policy response. READ MORE

3. 2. Using Gender Quotas to Legitimise Non-Democracies : A critical discourse analysis of the Algerian gender quota

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Cajsa Hemström; [2023]
   Keywords : gender quota; autocratic gender-washing; feminist institutionalism; Algeria; critical discourse analysis; gender reform; WPP;

   Abstract : This thesis examines a gender quota in Algeria to determine if signs can be found that it was adopted to improve the regime’s image, rather than to empower women. Such symbolic gender reforms are also known as autocratic gender-washing and are problematic as they are generally viewed as democratisation efforts but have no such effect. READ MORE

4. 3. Regional Organizations and Conflict Management: A Critical Discourse analysis of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). : Why did ECOWAS’s AFISMA fail to Resolve the Malian Conflict between 2012 and 2013 ?

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   Author : Gentil Niwe; [2023]
   Keywords : Conflict management; ECOWAS; Mali; AFISMA; ownership.;

   Abstract : This paper seeks to investigate why did ECOWAS’s AFISMA fail to resolve the Malian conflict between 2012 and 2013. The idea is not to go over the different challenges that ECOWAS faced in handling the Malian conflict but to instead establish the single main challenge that inhibited ECOWAS from achieving its desired goals in resolving and managing the crisis in Mali. READ MORE

5. 4. THE GOVERNMENTAL DISCOURSE TOWARD HOMOSEXUALS IN SWEDEN. A critical discourse analysis of the changing discourse between the years 1935 and 2007

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Andreas Ljunggren; [2022-02-11]
   Keywords : Homosexuality; Sexual Minority; Discursive Change; Visibility; Government Commissioned Reports SOU ;

   Abstract : This Master’s Thesis aims to examine how the governmental discourse of the attitudes toward homosexuals has changed in Sweden since 1935 up until modern day. To do this, selected quotes for deeper analysis based on a larger textual analysis of nine Government Commissioned Reports (SOUs) between 1935 and 2007 are used, consisting of approximately 1000 pages. READ MORE

6. 5. The Gendered Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 as a Critical Juncture for NGO Program Policy? Insights from The Hunger Project

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Carolina Ernst; [2022]
   Keywords : Critical Juncture; COVID-19; Historical Institutionalism; Institutions; Non-Governmental Organizations; Path Dependence; Women’s rights; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis employs a historical institutionalist lens to analyze whether the gendered impacts of COVID-19 have initiated a critical juncture in The Hunger Project’s program policy. Crises such as COVID-19 may lead actors within organizations to question existing policies, giving them greater opportunities than normal to transform these, with lasting consequences. READ MORE