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Crisis and Gender in Legislative-Executive Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2023

Corinna Kroeber Open the ORCID record for Corinna Kroeber [Opens in a new window]  and
Sarah C. Dingler Open the ORCID record for Sarah C. Dingler [Opens in a new window]
Corinna Kroeber*
Affiliation:
University of Greifswald, Germany
Sarah C. Dingler
Affiliation:
University of Innsbruck, Austria
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*Corresponding author. Email: Corinna.Kroeber@uni-greifswald.de
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The interaction of the legislative and executive is gendered in nature. Gender shapes what actors in these two institutions demand from each other. This pattern is visible, for instance, in the distinct policy priorities of women and men in parliament (e.g., Allen and Childs 2019; Bäck and Debus 2019; Lowande, Ritchie, and Lauterbach 2019) and in the ways that women engage and oversee related government initiatives. At the same time, gender influences the strengths and weaknesses that actors in the legislature and executive ascribe to each other and, hence, their mutual assessment. Members of parliament (MPs) and party gatekeepers, for instance, tend to favor men for the most influential and well-resourced portfolios, since they believe that masculine traits are necessary or suitable to succeed in governmental positions, and membership in men-dominated political networks remains an important route to qualify for ministerial office (see, e.g., Annesley, Beckwith, and Franceschet 2019; Krook and O’Brien 2012). Change in these dynamics is scarce or occurs only gradually, meaning that the ways in which executive-legislative interactions are gendered are usually stable.

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Critical Perspectives Article
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Politics & Gender , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 908 - 914
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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