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020			_a978-3-031-48328-8 (eBook)
040			_aAFVC
100			_aSawer, Marian _912853
245			_aToxic parliaments : _band what can be done about them _cMarian Sawer and Maria Maley
260			_bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2024
300			_aelectronic document (136 pages) ; PDF & epub
520			_aThis book shows how the #MeToo movement and revelations of sexual harassment and bullying in the parliamentary workplace have provided momentum for reform in four Westminster countries—Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. These parliaments were characterised by extreme power imbalances between parliamentarians and staff and a lack of professionalised employment practices. Codes of conduct and independent complaints bodies were resisted on grounds of parliamentary privilege: the ballot box was supposedly the best means of holding parliamentarians accountable for their conduct. The taken-for-granted status of adversarialism as the fulcrum of politics also rendered gendered mistreatment invisible. We examine the different trajectories of reform in the four countries, but with most detail on the dramatic developments in Australia after angry women marched on parliament houses in 2021. At the theoretical level, the book illustrates the role of gendered logics of appropriateness in sustaining institutional practices and of critical junctures in enabling institu- tional change. While charting positive developments in the four countries, it reveals issues of ‘nested newness’ where new approaches to misconduct succumb to old partisan logics. (About ths book). Record #8634
650			_aATTITUDES _970
650			_aBULLYING _991
650		4	_9273 _aGOVERNMENT
650			_aSEXUAL HARASSMENT _9534
650		0	_aVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN _93088
650			_aWORKPLACE _9652
651			_aINTERNATIONAL _93624
651		4	_aAUSTRALIA _92597
651		4	_aCANADA _92602
651		4	_aNEW ZEALAND _92588
651		4	_aUNITED KINGDOM _92604
700			_aMaley, Maria _912854
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48328-8 _zDOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-48328-8 (Open access)
856			_uhttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-48328-8 _zDownload PDF or epub
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