Women’s Pathways into Parliament: The Case of Indonesia
(2015) MIDM19 20151LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management
- Abstract
- The purpose of this thesis was to examine women’s pathways into the Indonesian national parliament. Pathways constitute of both barriers and enablers, which were identified and discussed in the case of women’s access to the Indonesian parliament. This was examined by answering the research question: “What do female MPs’ narratives tell us about pathways into the Indonesian national parliament?”, using two sub-questions about barriers and enablers. The thesis as based on multiple qualitative data, both primary and secondary, in order to build a case study. The primary data constitutes of narrative interviews with female MPs in Indonesia and written biographies from the Internet; the secondary material used in the thesis treats topics about... (More)
- The purpose of this thesis was to examine women’s pathways into the Indonesian national parliament. Pathways constitute of both barriers and enablers, which were identified and discussed in the case of women’s access to the Indonesian parliament. This was examined by answering the research question: “What do female MPs’ narratives tell us about pathways into the Indonesian national parliament?”, using two sub-questions about barriers and enablers. The thesis as based on multiple qualitative data, both primary and secondary, in order to build a case study. The primary data constitutes of narrative interviews with female MPs in Indonesia and written biographies from the Internet; the secondary material used in the thesis treats topics about women’s access into the Indonesian national parliament. The main result in this thesis was that status play a huge role as an enabler for women’s pathways into the national parliament in Indonesia. This was also missing from the theoretical framework within the thesis; these deviations can be used for theory building within this area of research. (Less)
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- author
- Berg, Livia LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MIDM19 20151
- year
- 2015
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Gender, Participation, Indonesian parliament, Pathways, Political access
- language
- English
- id
- 5421758
- date added to LUP
- 2015-06-29 15:22:36
- date last changed
- 2015-06-29 15:22:36
@misc{5421758, abstract = {{The purpose of this thesis was to examine women’s pathways into the Indonesian national parliament. Pathways constitute of both barriers and enablers, which were identified and discussed in the case of women’s access to the Indonesian parliament. This was examined by answering the research question: “What do female MPs’ narratives tell us about pathways into the Indonesian national parliament?”, using two sub-questions about barriers and enablers. The thesis as based on multiple qualitative data, both primary and secondary, in order to build a case study. The primary data constitutes of narrative interviews with female MPs in Indonesia and written biographies from the Internet; the secondary material used in the thesis treats topics about women’s access into the Indonesian national parliament. The main result in this thesis was that status play a huge role as an enabler for women’s pathways into the national parliament in Indonesia. This was also missing from the theoretical framework within the thesis; these deviations can be used for theory building within this area of research.}}, author = {{Berg, Livia}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Women’s Pathways into Parliament: The Case of Indonesia}}, year = {{2015}}, }