States of Democracy

Yvonne Galligan is Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen’s University Belfast.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Foreword 1. States of Democracy: An Overview Yvonne Galligan 2. Formulating the Goods and Services Directive in the European Union: A lost opportunity for gender equality? Yvonne Galligan and Sara Clavero 3. Topographies of gender democracy in Austria Nora Gresch and Birgit Sauer 4. States of gender democracy: Variation on a theme in Finland Hanna Kaisa Hoppania and Anne Maria Holli 5. Gender expectations and state inertia: the case of Greece Yota Papageorgiou 6. Making a sow's ear from a silk purse': gender democracy in Hungary Roza Vajda 7. National and European gender equality legislation: a mismatch of agendas and hesitant feminism in Lithuania Irmina Matonytė 8. Gender democracy in Poland: an empty shell? Katarzyna Zielińska 9. Gender democracy in Spain: undemocratic compliance and the domestication of European law Sara Clavero 10. Why democracy? On the relationship between gender democracy and gender equality in the European Union Cathrine Holst Bibliography Glossary