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Party politics, religion, and women's leadership : Lebanon in comparative perspective
- Title
- Party politics, religion, and women's leadership : Lebanon in comparative perspective / Fatima Sbaity Kassem.
- Author
- Kassem, Fatima Sbaity
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Details
- Description
- xii, 283 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "The 2011 Arab uprisings re-ignited global interest in the role that Islam and Islamist parties play in democratic transitions, especially with regard to women's lawful rights to share in governance and leadership. This book advances a theory of party religiosity to explain women's leadership across parties and countries, drawing on robust qualitative and quantitative findings from cross-national multiple cases and a case-study of Lebanon. The theory travels across 330 parties in 26 different countries - in Asia, Africa, and Europe. It is powerful and generalizable with explanatory and predictive powers"--
- Subjects
- Political parties
- Leadership in women
- Political culture
- Islam and politics
- RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
- Parteiführer
- Parteipolitische Betätigung
- Political parties > Lebanon
- Politische Führung
- Leadership in women > Lebanon
- RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies
- Politikerin
- Political culture > Lebanon
- Religiöse Partei
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
- Lebanon
- Frau
- Islam and politics > Lebanon
- Internationaler Vergleich
- Repräsentation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-274) and index.
- Contents
- Toward a theory of party religiosity and women's leadership -- A traveling theory of party religiosity and women's leadership -- Why Lebanon? The puzzle and pool of women in party politics -- Party religiosity, political culture, and the civil war -- Unpacking party institutionalization -- Finding that special niche : women for parties -- Party politics explaining women's leadership -- Can women berak through the political glass ceiling? -- Concluding remarks -- Epilogue. The 2011 Arab uprisings : will a "women spring" ever dawn?
- Call Number
- JFD 15-828
- ISBN
- 9781137333209 (hardback)
- 1137333200 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013042848
- OCLC
- 855607016
- Author
- Kassem, Fatima Sbaity, author.
- Title
- Party politics, religion, and women's leadership : Lebanon in comparative perspective / Fatima Sbaity Kassem.
- Publisher
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-274) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-828