Melissa Haussman - Gendering the State in the Age of Globalization: Womens Movements and State Feminism in Postindustrial Democracies

1. Policy Debate
2. Appeared on Public Agenda
3. Endpoint Government Decision
4. WPA(s) in Existence Over Period of Time
5. Debate Sites: Organizations/Level of Government
6. Documents and Other Sources Used
7. Describe Policy Debate in Three Stages
   • Dominant frame at the beginning of debate
   • How frame changes
   • frame at the end of debate

   What is the problem? What is it that needs fixing? (wrong; injustice; threat; situation that needs corrective action, etc.)

   Who is to blame for the problem?

   What should be done? Corrective Action

   Content of Gendered Debate:

   1. Images of women and what they are like.
   2. How men and women are different from each other. How men and women are NOT different.
   3. The ways gender systems shape situations/identities.
   4. How to correct? Challenges to male domination? Challenges to traditional gender roles? Is gendered debate feminist?
8. Gendering and Policy Debate
   1. Who presented gendered issues? (groups, individuals, networks, publics, WPAs, womens movement, trade unions, etc.)
   2. Centrality of gendering to the debate?
   3. Effect on law and legislation?
   4. What was the position of the womens movement on this policy debate?
9. Womens Participation (How did women participate in this policy debatenot necessarily feminist womenand did they advocate some aspect of womens interests in the debate?)

   Individuals
   Groups
   Networks
   Publics

Policy Debate Name and Dates

Endpoint Government Decision

1. IVI-WM Womens Movement

   Mapping the WM: What are the major organizations, movements, individuals, and the major ideas espoused by this constellation of actors? The following information should be gathered as well:

   1. Stage (emerging/re-emerging, growth, consolidaton, decline/abeyance)
   2. Closeness of WMO to the left and/or political parties/groups that espouse social equality
   3. Strength of counter-movement
   4. Priority of issue to movement agenda
   5. Cohesion of movement
2. IVII-PE Policy Environment

   Policy subsystem:

   1. Structure: Who are the major actors, dominant structures, and patterns of interaction? (open, moderatley closed, closed)
   2. Dominant Discourse Fit: What is the dominant discourse used by the policy actors in the subsystem? To what degree does it fit with the positions of the womens movement and WPAs? (Matching, compatible, incompatible)
   3. Party in Power/Coalition
3. INTERVENING VARIABLE:

   Womens Policy Agency Characteristics (if more than one WPA, information should be gathered on each):

   Scope (single issue, cross-sectional, other?):

   Type (political, administrative, other?):

   Proximity (position in government hierarchy):

   Administrative Capacity (budget, staff, administrative divisions, field offices, womens group subsidies, etc.):

   Individual Leadership (feminist, political, bureaucratic, etc.):

   Policy Mandate (major policy orientations):

   Womens Policy Agency Activities (Insider, Marginal, Non-Feminist, Symbolic)

   WPA-Gendered Policy Debate?

   WPA-Promoted Womens Movement Goals?

4. DEPENDENT VARIABLE

   Womens Movement Impact (Dual Response, Co-optation, Pre-emption, No Response)

   Were women (individuals, group networks, constituencies) advanced? Was some aspect of womens interests accepted in the policymaking process?

   Policy action achieved womens movement goals or not?

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