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Assessing gender democracy in the EU Methodological challenges
Sara Clavero and Yvonne GalliganCentre for Advancement of Women in
Politics
Queen’s University Belfast
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Background RECON project
Brings EU democracy debates to the test Develops a set of indicators of
democratic performance in EU RECON-gender
Constructs a methodology for assessing gender democracy in EU
Assessment focused on multi-level system
Uses results for comparative research
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1. Defining ‘gender democracy’ Four desiderata
1. A substantive rather than procedural definition
2. Focus both on political equality and public control
3. Informed by feminist thinking on democracy
4. It can be rendered operational in a set of observable indicators
Deliberative democracy Good framework for fulfilling desiderata 1-2 Not so great for desiderata 3-4
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2. Deriving indicators Four normative criteria:
Inclusion, political equality, publicity and reasonableness
Conditions: Coherence Universality Objectivity Feasibility
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3. Methods
Four questions: Quantitative measures or qualitative
judgements? How are attainment standards
decided? How to produce data that is
unavailable? Who carries out the assessment?
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Some lessons learnt
Need to draw on previous practice Tough methodological decisions at
every step of the way Need to keep into view both
internal and external constraints Open-ended process
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