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Increasing women's representation in France and India
Cet article prĂ©sente la question de la reprĂ©sentation politique des femmes en France et en Inde. Tout dâabord, il vise Ă mettre en Ă©vidence comment la reprĂ©sentation des femmes Ă©tait inscrite Ă lâagenda politique de chaque pays. Ensuite, il propose un examen critique des arguments utilisĂ©s pour justifier la demande dâune meilleure reprĂ©sentation ainsi que de ceux pour sây opposer. Enfin, il considĂšre les conclusions que lâon peut tirer de ces deux cas. DĂ©passant les cadres comparatifs traditionnels utilisĂ©s par les fĂ©ministes occidentales et en contestant lâinsistance française sur l'idĂ©e d'une France unique, cet article identifie les particularismes et les points communs de chaque cas, pour tenter dâatteindre Ă ce que Shirin Rai appelle âun dĂ©passement enracinĂ© des frontiĂšres culturelles, historiques et politiques.â (Rai, 2000: 15)
Legitimacy and the cognitive sources of international institutional change: The case of regional parliamentarization
How and under what conditions does legitimacy affect processes of international institutional change? This article specifies and evaluates three causal mechanisms by which variation in legitimacy induces institutional change in international organizations (IOs) and argues that an important, yet hitherto neglected, source of legitimacy-based change is cognitive in nature. Using survival analysis, we evaluate these mechanisms with a novel dataset on the establishment of parliamentary institutions in thirty-six regional organizations between 1950 and 2010. We find that the empowerment of supranational secretariats, engagement with the European Union, and parliamentarization in an organization's neighborhood increase the likelihood of regional parliamentarization. This suggests that legitimacy judgments that draw on cognitive referents provide an important source of international institutional change. We illustrate the underlying cognitive emulation mechanism with a case study of parliamentarization in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
The Bosnian Muslims and the Irish Perspective
The conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina can be understood in multiple ways, however, the focus of this paper is to examine the perspective of Ireland on the Bosnian Muslims at different levels of society--ranging from the population to international level--from June 01, 1992 to January 31, 1996. Through an analysis of letters to the editor in The Irish Times, parliamentary debate transcripts, and the Barbara Sloan European Union Document Collection located at the University of Pittsburgh\u27s Hillman Library, I have been able to reveal how complex perspectives within a state on a particular issue can be, and how they can vary between states
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