Excluding Women

Excluding Women
Author: Morina Perera
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Contributed articles.

Women's Political Participation and Representation in Asia

Women's Political Participation and Representation in Asia
Author: Kazuki Iwanaga
Publisher: NIAS Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 8776940160

The ability of a small elite of highly educated, upper-class Asian women to obtain the highest political positions in their country is unmatched elsewhere in the world and deserves study. But there is a marked lack of relevant research as well as of comprehensive and user-friendly texts. Aiming to fill the gap is this timely and important study of the various obstacles and opportunities for women's political participation and representation in Asia.

Equality in Politics

Equality in Politics
Author: Julie Ballington
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2008
Genre: Women
ISBN: 9291423793

The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights

The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights
Author: Susan Franceschet
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 751
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137590742

This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase women’s political representation around the globe. Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to women’s political empowerment worldwide. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of gender and politics, women’s studies, history and sociology.

Decentralization and Development of Sri Lanka Within a Unitary State

Decentralization and Development of Sri Lanka Within a Unitary State
Author: N.S. Cooray
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811042594

This comprehensive volume provides uniquely diverse insights into various aspects of decentralization and development from both developed and developing countries, with special reference to Sri Lanka. For a quarter century, Sri Lanka was battered by its prolonged civil war, which ended in 2009, but has now achieved relative peace and stability. Having developed rapidly, Sri Lanka offers a classic example for developing countries. There is, however, a strong need, particularly in the context of postwar conflict, to formulate policies for reconciliation, peace building, and development at all levels—local, provincial, and national. Decentralization itself is not a new subject; however, how to devolve power to local administrative levels within a unitary system and how to link the devolved power to make local administrative systems more conducive to development and provide better services for citizens are challenging tasks in many countries. Taking into account the developmental, governance, and conciliatory needs and the sensitivity of central–local relations, this volume critically examines the local government systems in Sri Lanka. It also proposes a viable, effective and autonomous local-level administrative unit based, which draws on experiences from Japan and other countries, and identifies the role and functions of such a unit. The book presents commissioned papers from a three-year research project undertaken by internationally respected experts with financial support by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) under a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research.

An Uneasy Hegemony

An Uneasy Hegemony
Author: Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2022-08-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009276514

Sri Lanka has been regarded as a model democracy among former British colonies. It was lauded for its impressive achievement in terms of human development indicators. However, Sri Lanka's modern history can also be read as a tragic story of inter-ethnic inequalities and tensions, resulting in years of violent conflicts. Two long spells of anti-state youth uprisings were followed by nearly three decades of civil war, and most recently a renewed upsurge of events are examples of the on-going uneasy project of state-building. This book discusses that state-building in Sri Lanka is centred on the struggle for hegemony amidst a kind of politics that rejects individual and group equality, opposes the social integration of marginalised groups and appeals to narrow, fearful and xenophobic tendencies among the majority population and minorities alike. It answers the pressing questions of - How do the dynamics of intra-Sinhalese class relations and Sinhalese politics influence the trajectories of post-colonial state-building? What tensions emerge over time, between Sinhalese hegemony-building and wider state-building? How did these tensions manifest in majority and minority relationships?