Gender Expertise in Public Policy : Towards a Theory of Policy Success.

Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Knowledge, Expertise, and Public Policy: The Changing Relationship Between Science and Public Policy -- The End of Policy Expertise? -- Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Expertise -- Foundations and Contributions -- Methodology -- Plan of Book -- 2 Conceptualizing Gender Expertise: Locating the Expertise in Gender Expertise -- Context Guideline -- Naming Guideline -- Zones Guideline -- Dimensions Guideline -- Necessity Guideline -- Negation Guideline -- Interdependence Guideline -- Causal Relationships Guideline -- Traveling Guideline -- Operationalization Guideline -- Conclusion -- 3 Locating the Experts: Identifying the Actors, Mapping the Terrain -- Who Are the Experts? Utilizing Location to Categorize Expertise -- Gender Expert Activities -- Work Experience -- Locating the Policy Experts: Examining the RNGS Data -- Conclusions -- 4 "Fighting Against Windmills"?Identifying the Ingredients of Policy Success -- What Is Policy Success? -- Non-Feminist Theories of Public Policy and Ingredients for Expert Success -- Feminist Comparative Policy Literature and Ingredients for Success -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- 5 Triangulating the Factors that Impact Success: Searching for Common Explanations of Policy Success -- Reviewing the Factors that Impact Gender Expertise -- Methods -- Results -- Conclusions -- 6 Assessing the Factors that Impact the Success of Gender Experts in Public Policy: The Search for Necessity -- Understanding Qualitative Comparative Analysis -- Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State -- Explaining Gender Expert Policy Success: Conditions Utilized in QCA Analysis -- Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Gender Expert Success -- Conclusions.

7 Gender Expert Success in Public Policy: Towards a Better Understanding -- Findings -- Developing Theoretical Propositions -- Theoretical Contributions -- Generalizability and Limitations -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Interview Protocol and Coding -- Survey Methodology -- Survey Coding -- csQCA Values -- csQCA Truth Tables of Gender Expert Success -- Index.

Through a selection of in-depth interviews, a survey of experts working with the European Union and United Nations, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis of policy debates, this text rethinks our understanding of gender expertise and the circumstances that lead to expert success in public policy.

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