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dc.contributor.authorAvdeyeva, Olga A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-23T04:30:40Z
dc.date.available2021-01-23T04:30:40Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46256
dc.description.abstractComparative analysis of gender equality reforms enacted in ten post-communist states who became members of the European Union.Between 2004 and 2007, ten post-communist Eastern European states became members of the European Union (EU). To do so, these nations had to meet certain EU accession requirements, including antidiscrimination reforms. While attaining EU membership was an incredible achievement, many scholars and experts doubted the sustainability of accession-linked reforms. Would these nations comply with EU directives on gender equality? To explore this question, Defending Women’s Rights in Europe presents a unique analysis of detailed original comparative data on state compliance with EU gender equality requirements. It features a comprehensive quantitative analysis combined with rigorous insightful case studies of reforms in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania. Olga A. Avdeyeva reveals that policy and institutional reforms developed furthest in those states where women’s advocacy NGOs managed to form coalitions with governing political parties. After becoming members of the EU, the governments did not abolish these policies and institutions despite the costs and lack of popular support. Reputational concerns prevented state elites from policy dismantling, but gender equality policies and institutions became marginalized on the state agenda after accession.Olga A. Avdeyeva is Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSUNY Press Open Access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farmingen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girlsen_US
dc.subject.otherTechnology & Engineering
dc.subject.otherAgriculture
dc.subject.otherPolitical Science
dc.subject.otherPublic Policy
dc.subject.otherSocial Policy
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherWomen's Studies
dc.titleDefending Women's Rights in Europe
dc.title.alternativeGender Equality and EU Enlargement
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1353/book.83874
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy1e003940-c9f9-4f5d-b1a0-1cfa16a3eae7
oapen.relation.isbn9781438455938
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintSUNY Press
oapen.pages286
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/a94f0819-c90e-42d8-87d2-2dc3fe0409f8
oapen.identifier.isbn9781438455938


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