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Party politics, religion, and women's leadership : Lebanon in comparative perspective

Title
  1. Party politics, religion, and women's leadership : Lebanon in comparative perspective / Fatima Sbaity Kassem.
Published by
  1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Supplementary content
  1. Cover image
Author
  1. Kassem, Fatima Sbaity

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Description
  1. xii, 283 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "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"--
Subject
  1. Political parties
  2. Leadership in women
  3. Political culture
  4. Islam and politics
  5. RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
  6. Parteiführer
  7. Parteipolitische Betätigung
  8. Political parties > Lebanon
  9. Politische Führung
  10. Leadership in women > Lebanon
  11. RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies
  12. Politikerin
  13. Political culture > Lebanon
  14. Religiöse Partei
  15. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
  16. Lebanon
  17. Frau
  18. Islam and politics > Lebanon
  19. Internationaler Vergleich
  20. Repräsentation
Contents
  1. 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
  1. JFD 15-828
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-274) and index.
Author
  1. Kassem, Fatima Sbaity, author.
Title
  1. Party politics, religion, and women's leadership : Lebanon in comparative perspective / Fatima Sbaity Kassem.
Publisher
  1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-274) and index.
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  1. Cover image
LCCN
  1. 2013042848
ISBN
  1. 9781137333209 (hardback)
  2. 1137333200 (hardback)
Research call number
  1. JFD 15-828
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