Gender mainstreaming på polska? Om normspridningsprocesser i EU
(2005)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- By the same time as the recent enlargement of the European Union, where Poland became a member, it was officially stated that the gender mainstreaming-policy was to be integrated into every area of EU. NGO:s working as entrepreneurs for the gender mainstreaming norm in Poland supported the accession largely because they believed it would help spreading the norm also on a national level. Qualitatively analyzing the Polish case and the difficulties gender mainstreaming as a norm candidate meets with I contrast expectations with what could actually be EU:s role in this matter.
Arguing that EU is a context with room for spreading norms by both bargaining and socialization, this paper takes a social constructivist approach. Gender... (More) - By the same time as the recent enlargement of the European Union, where Poland became a member, it was officially stated that the gender mainstreaming-policy was to be integrated into every area of EU. NGO:s working as entrepreneurs for the gender mainstreaming norm in Poland supported the accession largely because they believed it would help spreading the norm also on a national level. Qualitatively analyzing the Polish case and the difficulties gender mainstreaming as a norm candidate meets with I contrast expectations with what could actually be EU:s role in this matter.
Arguing that EU is a context with room for spreading norms by both bargaining and socialization, this paper takes a social constructivist approach. Gender mainstreaming as a norm is difficult for EU to apply on their members, and thus was not widely discussed during accession negotiations. In the same time. I argue that EU can influence on a national level anyway, that mainstreaming of gender at every area in EU needs contributions and support also from new member states and that EU can work both as a normative instrument according to the ?power of the principle? as a platform for norm entrepreneurs to work on. (Less)
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- author
- Rantatalo, Sofia
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- social constructivism, norms, European integration, gender mainstreaming, Poland, Social sciences, Samhällsvetenskaper, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1330803
- date added to LUP
- 2005-06-17 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2005-06-17 00:00:00
@misc{1330803,
abstract = {{By the same time as the recent enlargement of the European Union, where Poland became a member, it was officially stated that the gender mainstreaming-policy was to be integrated into every area of EU. NGO:s working as entrepreneurs for the gender mainstreaming norm in Poland supported the accession largely because they believed it would help spreading the norm also on a national level. Qualitatively analyzing the Polish case and the difficulties gender mainstreaming as a norm candidate meets with I contrast expectations with what could actually be EU:s role in this matter.
Arguing that EU is a context with room for spreading norms by both bargaining and socialization, this paper takes a social constructivist approach. Gender mainstreaming as a norm is difficult for EU to apply on their members, and thus was not widely discussed during accession negotiations. In the same time. I argue that EU can influence on a national level anyway, that mainstreaming of gender at every area in EU needs contributions and support also from new member states and that EU can work both as a normative instrument according to the ?power of the principle? as a platform for norm entrepreneurs to work on.}},
author = {{Rantatalo, Sofia}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Gender mainstreaming på polska? Om normspridningsprocesser i EU}},
year = {{2005}},
}