Download or read book Gender, Politics and Institutions written by M. Krook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.