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Gender and Opposition Leadership in the Pacific Islands
| العنوان: | Gender and Opposition Leadership in the Pacific Islands |
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| المؤلفون: | Baker, Kerryn, Corbett, Jack |
| المصدر: | Politics and Governance, 11, 1, 130-140, Women Opposition Leaders: Pathways, Patterns, and Performance |
| بيانات النشر: | PRT, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Social sciences, sociology, anthropology, Pacific Islands, gender, glass cliff, leader of the opposition, political parties, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Pazifischer Raum, Parlament, Führungsposition, Frau, geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren, politischer Einfluss, Opposition, Pacific Rim, parliament, executive position, woman, gender-specific factors, political influence, opposition |
| الوصف: | Parliaments in the Pacific Islands are among the most male-dominated in the world. Yet despite the odds, there is a cohort of women who have been elected and won senior roles. This article adds to an emerging literature that examines the gendered pathways to political influence in the region by focusing on the hitherto overlooked role of the opposition leader. It uses a biographical approach to consider the pathways in and through this role by four women opposition leaders: Fiame Naomi Mata’afa (Samoa), Hilda Heine (Marshall Islands), Dame Carol Kidu (Papua New Guinea), and Ro Teimumu Kepa (Fiji). We parse out factors that explain the success of these leaders while also identifying barriers that have prevented their emergence in other Pacific states. We identify two main ways in which women politicians have used the position of leader of the opposition: first, the conventional understanding of the role as a path to power; and second, the less well-understood role of defending and protecting democratic norms and institutions. The latter can be interpreted as a version of the “glass cliff” phenomenon where women leaders assume key positions in times of crisis. Our findings thus highlight that while in the Pacific the role of leader of the opposition can be a path to power, the relatively few women leaders who have taken on this role have used it in diverse and varied ways. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Zeitschriftenartikel journal article |
| تدمد: | 2183-2463 |
| DOI: | 10.17645/pag.v11i1.6065 |
| URL الوصول: | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/85344 |
| Rights: | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsgso.85344 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 21832463 |
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| DOI: | 10.17645/pag.v11i1.6065 |