Stensöta, Helena
Gender and Corruption
Part I. Introduction
1. Why Expect a Link Between Gender and Corruption?
Helena Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud
2. The Historic Roots of Quality of Government: The Role of Gender Equality
Amy C. Alexander
3. Corruption, Gender Equality and Meritocracy
Bo Rothstein
Part II. Citizens and the Electoral Arena
4. Gender and Citizen Responses to Corruption among Politicians: The U.S. and Brazil
Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, Justin Esarey, Erika Schumacher
5. Why Do Some Voters Prefer Female Candidates? The Role of Perceived Incorruptibility in Arab Elections
Lindsay J. Benstead, Ellen Lust
6. Gender Quotas and the Re(pro)duction of Corruption
Elin Bjarnegård, Mi Yung Yoon, Pär Zetterberg
Part III. Engendering the Bureaucracy
7. Corruption and Female Representation in the Bureaucracy
Helena Stensöta
8. Is Women’s Political Representation Beneficial to Women’s Interests in Autocracies? Theory and Evidence from Post-Soviet Russia
Marina Nistotskaya, Helena Stensöta
Part IV. Gender, Change, and Corruption
9. Does Gender Matter? Female Politicians’ Engagement in Anti-corruption Efforts
Amy C. Alexander, Andreas Bågenholm
10. Gender and Corruption in Mexico: Building a Theory of Conditioned Causality
Marcia Grimes, Lena Wängnerud
11. Gender Aspects of Government Auditing
Mattias Agerberg, Maria Gustavson, Aksel Sundström, Lena Wängnerud
Part V. New Avenues for Research
12. Corruption as Exploitation: Feminist Exchange Theories and the Link Between Gender and Corruption
Helen Lindberg, Helena Stensöta
13. Focusing on Masculinity and Male-Dominated Networks in Corruption
Elin Bjarnegård
14. Final Thoughts: Taking Stock and Reflections on Ways Forward
Helena Stensöta
Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Politics and Gender, Governance and Government, Comparative Politics
- Editor
- Stensöta, Helena
- Wängnerud, Lena
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Political Corruption and Governance
- Page amount
- 18 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319709291
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-70928-4