Toxic Parliaments

This open access book shows how the #MeToo movement and revelations of sexual harassment and bullying have spurred on reform of the parliamentary workplace in four Westminster countries – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Long-standing conventions included extreme power imbalances between p...

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Główni autorzy: Sawer, Marian, Maley, Maria
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1364652025-07-18T09:46:59Z Toxic Parliaments Sawer, Marian Maley, Maria Westminster Parliament Gender Harassment #MeToo thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups This open access book shows how the #MeToo movement and revelations of sexual harassment and bullying have spurred on reform of the parliamentary workplace in four Westminster countries – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Long-standing conventions included extreme power imbalances between parliamentarians and staff and a lack of professionalised employment practices. Codes of conduct and independent complaints bodies were resisted on grounds of parliamentary privilege: the ballot box was supposedly the best means of holding parliamentarians accountable for their conduct. The taken-for-granted status of adversarial politics and its silencing effects also rendered gendered mistreatment invisible. The authors examine the institutional backdrop and the different trajectories of reform in the four countries, with most detail on the dramatic developments in Australia after angry women marched on parliament houses in 2021. They show how the different parliaments have responded to escalating evidence of misconduct, the role of policy borrowing, and the possibilities of lasting institutional change. 2024-04-18T06:11:33Z 2024-04-18T06:11:33Z 2024-04-16T08:17:23Z 2024 book ONIX_20240416_9783031483288_22 OCN: 1429845655 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89917 9783031483288 9783031483271 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/136465 eng Gender and Politics open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89917/1/978-3-031-48328-8.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89917/1/978-3-031-48328-8.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-48328-8 10.1007/978-3-031-48328-8 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 1d6e8fa9-0b2c-43ed-b75f-b292475891ea 9783031483288 9783031483271 Palgrave Macmillan 125 Cham [...] open access
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