Drude Dahlerup
Drude Dahlerup is Professor of Political Science at the University of Stockholm.
Current research interests
Women in Politics; Gender Quotas; Social Movements, especially the Women's Movement; Feminist Theory.
FEMCIT - New Gender Project on Multicultural Citizenship
(FEMCIT - Nytt genusprojekt om multikulturellt medborgarskap)
New Titles
"Ligestillingsforståelser i svenske og danske partier - Er en borgelig ligestillingspolitik under udvikling? in Tidskriftet Politik, no 2: 10-16, 2007.
"Electoral Gender Quotas: between Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Result", pp. 73-92 in Representation, vol. 43, no 2, July 2007. "Will Gender balance in Politics Come by Itself?", pp.251-270 in Barbara Kellerman & Deborah L. Rhode (eds.): Women & Leadership. The State of Play and Strategies for Change. Wiley, Boston 2007
"Kontinuitet och vågor i den feministiska rörelsen - en utmaning för teorin om sociala rörelser", ss.85-108 i Åsa Wettergren & Andrew Jamison (red): Sociala rörelser. Politik och kultur. Studentlitteratur 2006.
Current research projects
Quotas: a Key to Equality? An International Comparison of the Use of Electoral Quotas to obtain Equal Political Citizenship for Women.
Quotas are very controversial, and yet several countries around the world have recently introduced gender quotas in public elections, e.g. so different countries as Sweden, Nepal, South Africa, France, Uganda, Argentina and Bosnia.
This project is the first world-wide comparative analysis of the discursive controversies about quotas and of how actual quotas work. The project will study 1) the discursive controversy around quotas 2) the decision-making processes that led to the introduction of quotas, 3) the implementation of various types of formal and informal quota systems in different politic al systems and 4) the consequences of quotas, intended as well as unintended. Do quotas lead to the empowerment of women in quanitative as well as qualitative terms? Spill-over effects to or from quotas for other groups or minorities will be included.
Quotas represent a change in public equality policy, from "equal opportunities" to "equality of results". But quotas also touches upon fundamental questions in democratic theory (e.g. social representation versus representation of ideas) and in feminist theory (e.g. the construction of women as a political category)
For the purpose of cross-national comparison, the project will create a network of international scholars that have conducted single country studies of the introduction of quotas. Further, in depths analyses will be conducted in a selected number of countries, among them Sweden and Bosnia. The influence of international bodies will be studied.
Scientific results: articles, a book (in English) and two doctoral theses.
Supported by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
Research program
More on the Quotas Project
Assignments
Vice-Chair of the Danish Government's Council for European Politics 1993-2000.
Member of the board of KVINFO, The Danish Center for Information on Women and Gender, Copenhagen, 1998-2003.
Member of the Norwegian State Research Council, section for political science 1991-1994
Head of Cekvina, Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Aarhus, 1991-92 and 1997
Chair of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on Sex Roles and Politics, 1982-85 (together with Professor Fanny Tabak, Brazil)
Journals
European Journal of Political Research (editorial board)
NORA, Nordic Journal of Women's Studies (advisory board)
Arbejderforskning/Working Class History Journal (advisory board)
Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift (editorial board)
Selected Publications
Books
Anette Borchhorst og Drude Dahlerup: Ligestillingspolitik som diskurs og praksis. Samfundslitteratur. 2003 261 s.
Rødstrømperne. Den danske Rødstrømpebevægelses udvikling, nytænkning og gennemslag 1970-85. Vol.I, 655 pages, vol.II, 500 pages. Gyldendal 1998. (The Redstockings. The rise and fall, the ideas and the impact of the Danish Redstockings Movement, 1970-85, vol I-II. 1998).
Vi har ventet længe nok. Håndbog i kvinderepræsentation, Nordisk Ministerråd. (We Have Waited too Long. Handbook in Women's Representation). In Danish (1988), Icelandic (1988), Norwegian (1989), Swedish (1989) and Finnish (1990). 279 pages.
Blomster og Spark. Samtaler med kvindelige politikere i Norden. Nordisk Ministerråd, 1985. (Interviews with Women Politicians in the Nordic Countries). 349 pages.
Socialisme og kvindefrigørelse i det 19.århundrede. En analyse af Charles Fourier, Karl Marx, Fr. Engels, August Bebel og Clara Zetkin m.fl. GMT:1973. (Socialism and the Emancipation of Women in 19th Century Germany and France). 414 pages.
Edited books
Women, Quotas and Politics (ed), Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006
Moving On. New Perspectives on the Women's Movement. (With Andreasen och Borchorst. Aarhus University Press, 1991. 223 pages.
Kvinder på Tinge (Women in Parliament). (With Kristian Hvidt). Published by the Danish Parliament for the 75th anniversary of women's right to vote. Rosinante 1990. 246 pages.
Køn sorterer. Kønsopdeling på arbejdspladsen. Nordisk Ministerråd 1989 (Gender Structure of the Labour Market).
The New Women's Movement. Feminism and Political Power in the USA and Europe, Sage Publications, London 1986. 254 pages.
Det uferdige demokratiet. Kvinner i Nordisk politikk, (with Elina-Haavio-Mannila och Maud Eduards). Nordisk Ministerråd 1983, two editions, one in Finnish, and one in the three Scandinavian languages - Danish, Norwegian and Swedish (292 pages). In English as Unfinished Democracy. Women in Nordic Politics. Pergamon Press, 1985.
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