Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Lang Sabine, Sauer Birgit
    Does Federalism Impact Gender Architectures? The Case of Women’s Policy Agencies in Germany and Austria
    in Publius: The Journal of Federalism , vol. 43, n. 1, Winter ,  2013 ,  68-89
    This article investigates how strong German and weak Austrian cooperative federalism affect women’s policy machineries. We find that it is the federal organization of both polities that has posited engrained advantages for the establishment and the sustainability of women’s policy agencies (WPA). We also find that center/left parties are crucial for sustaining and advancing the role of WPA. However, during economic crises, we see that the women’s policy infrastructure in the strong federal state (Germany) was downsized while Austria’s national social democratic WPA protects subnational institutions.
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