Empowered by Design: Decentralization and the Gender Policy Trifecta

by Meg Rincker

In her probing book, Empowered by Design, Meg Rincker asks, Under what conditions will decentralization lead to women's empowerment in countries around the globe? Using three case studies--the United Kingdom, Poland, and Pakistan--she shows how decentralization reforms create new institutional offices as power shifts from the national level to a meso-tier level, which is located between the national government and local municipalities. These shifts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143991396X
• ISBN13: 9781439913963
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"