CIS: Central and Eastern Europe
General Sources for Central and Eastern Europe | Albania | Armenia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Croatia | Cyprus | Czech Republic | Hungary | Lithuania | Macedonia | Republic of Moldova | Romania | Serbia and Montenegro | Slovakia | Slovenia
General Sources for Central and Eastern Europe
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Jalusic, Vlasta and Milica Antic. 2000. Prospects for Gender Equality Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. Vienna: Institute for Human Sciences.
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Vode, A. 1998. Spol in upor, Ljubljana: Krtina.
Vode, A. 1999. Značaj in usoda, Ljubljana: Krtina.
Vode, A. 2000. Spomin in pozaba, Ljubljana: Krtina.
Waylen, Georgina. 1994. ‘Women and Democratization: Conceptualizing Gender Relations in Transition Politics.’ World Politics 46, no.3. pp. 327-354.
Woodward, A. 2001. ‘Women are Doing It’ – building a Gender Balanced Democracy using Sticks, Carrots and Kisses’, in M.A. Rukavina (ed.) Building national gender equality mechanisms in South East Europe: Women’s use of the state: 1999–2001, Ljubljana: Stability Pact Gender Task Force, pp. 42–6.
Znanstveno raziskovalni center pri SAZU, 2004. www.odmev.zrc-sazu.si/zrc/
Albania
Albanian Parliament website, http://www.parlament.al/
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. 2000. Report: Women 2000.
Stability Pact Gender Task Force (SPGTF). 2002. ‘Building National Gender Equality Mechanisms in South East Europe – Women's Use of the State.’
Woodward, Alison . 2001. ‘Women Are Doing It – Building a Gender Balanced Democracy Using Sticks, Carrots and Kisses'. Stability Pact Gender Task Force Regional Meeting, Slovenia (SPGTF).
Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation. 2002. ‘A Compilation of NGO Report from Balkan Countries: Albania.’ Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). pp.24-53
Armenia
Armenian Parliament website, http://www.parliament.am
Inter-Parliamentary Union. 1997. Men and Women in Politics: Democracy Still in the Making, A World Comparative Study. Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union
Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Association of Election Officials in BiH, www.aeobih.com.ba
Bosnian Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, www.mvp.gov.ba
Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliament website, http://www.parlament.ba/
Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation. 2002. ‘A Compilation of NGO Reports from Balkan Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina.’ Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). 2002. pp.54-85.
International Helsinki Federation (IHF) on Human Rights. 2002.
International Helsinki Federation (IHF) Report: Women 2000.
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Stability Pact Gender Task Force (SPGTF). 2002. Building National Gender Equality Mechanisms in South East Europe – Women's Use of the State.
Woodward, Alison. 2001. ‘Women Are Doing It – Building a Gender Balanced Democracy using Sticks, Carrots and Kisses’. Stability Pact Gender Task Force Regional Meeting, Slovenia (SPGTF).
Croatia
Antic, Milica. 1998. ‘Women in Parliament in Slovenia, Versus Losers of the “Wende” - Winners of the EU?’. ‘Participation of Women: Chances and effects of the transformation process’, Politik und Forum. Vienna. pp. 35-44.
Antic, Milica. 1999. ‘Slovene Political Parties and Their Influence on the Electoral Prospects of Women,’ Corrin, C. (ed.). Gender and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe. Frank Cass Publishers. pp. 7- 29.
Antic, Milica. 2001. ‘Women in Politics in Slovenia's New Democracy: Why so few?’, in Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Charles L. Taylor (eds). Elections in Slovenia, 1990-1997: Analyses, Documents and Data, Series Founding Elections in Eastern Europe. Edition Sigma, Berlin: Rainer Bohn Verlag.
Antic, Milica. 2003. ‘Factors Influencing Women's Presence in Slovene Parliament,’ in Matland, R. and Montgomery, K. (eds) Women's Access to Power in Post Communist Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation. 2002: ‘Croatia’ in Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). A Compilation of NGO Reports from Balkan Countries. pp.146-173.
Croatian Parliament, http://www.sabor.hr/
Stability Pact Gender Task Force (SPGTF). 2002. ‘Building National Gender Equality Mechanisms in South East Europe – Women's Use of the State’.
Woodward, Alison. 2001. ‘Women Are Doing It: Building a Gender Balanced Democracy Using Sticks, Carrots and Kisses’. Stability Pact Gender Task Force Regional Meeting, Slovenia (SPGTF).
Cyprus
Cyprus Parliament website, http://www.parliament.cy/
Czech
Republic
Czech Republic Parliament website, http://www.psp.cz/
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Hungary
Hungarian Parliament website, http://www.parlament.hu/
Ilonszki, Gabriella. 2000. ‘Gloomy Present, Bright Future? A Gender Perspective of Party Politics in Hungary.’ Paper presented at the Perspectives for Gender Equality Politics in Central and Eastern Europe Workshop, The Peace Institute, Ljubljana, May.
Jalusic, Vlasta and Milica Antic. 2000. Prospects for Gender Equality Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. Vienna: Institute for Human Sciences.
Petö, Andrea. 1997. ‘Hungarian Women in Politics’ Joan Scott, Cora Kaplan and Debra Keats (eds.). Transitions, Environments, Translations: The Meanings of Feminism in Contemporary Politics. New York. Routledge.
Szalai, Julia. 1998. ‘Women and Democratization: Some Notes on Recent Changes in Hungary’ Jacquette, Jane and Sharon L. Wolchik: Women and Democracy. Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. John Hopkins University Press, pp. 185-202.
Lithuania
Lithuanian Parliament website, http://www.lrs.lt/
Purvaneckiene, Giedre. 1999. ‘Women's and Gender Equality Issues in the Parliamentary Election Programs of Lithuania's Political Parties.’ Politics Towards Women and Women in Politics. Vilnius: Women's Issues Information Centre. pp. 33-61.
Macedonia
Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation. 2002. ‘Macedonia’. Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): A Compilation of NGO Report from Balkan Countries. pp.174-203.
Government of the Republic of Macedoni, www.gov.mk
Macedonian Parliament website, http://www.sobranie.mk/mk/index.asp
Stability Pact Gender Task Force (SPGTF). 2002. ‘Building National Gender Equality Mechanisms in South East Europe: Women's Use of the State’.
State Election Commission of the Republic of Macedonia, www.dik.mk
Woodward, Alison. 2001. ‘Women Are Doing It: Building a Gender Balanced Democracy Using Sticks, Carrots and Kisses’. Stability Pact Gender Task Force Regional Meeting. Slovenia (SPGTF).
Republic
of Moldova
Association for Participatory Democracy (Adept), ‘Elections 2005 in Moldova’, http://www.elections2005.md/
Inter-Parliamentary Union. 1997a. Men and Women in Politics: Democracy Still in the Making: A World Comparative Study. Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Republic of Moldova Parliament website, http://www.parlament.md/
Romania
Fischer, Mary Ellen. 1985. ‘Women in Romanian Politics: Elena Ceauşescu, Pronatalism, and the Promotion of Women.’ Sharon L. Wolchik and Alfred G. Meyer (eds). Women, State, and Party in Eastern Europe. Durham: Duke University Press. pp. 121-137.
Fischer, Mary Ellen. 1998. ‘From Tradition and Ideology to Elections and Competition: The Changing Status of Women in Romanian Politics.’ in Armonk: M. E. Sharpe (ed.). Women in the Politics of Post communist Eastern Europe. Marilyn Rueschmeyer Inc. pp. 168-195.
Inter-Parliamentary Union. 1997. Men and Women in Politics: Democracy Still in the Making: A World Comparative Study. Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Inter-Parliamentary Union. 1999. Participation of Women in Political Life: An assessment of developments in national parliaments, political parties, governments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, five years after the Fourth World Conference on Women. Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Romanian Parliament website, http://www.cdep.ro/
Serbia
and Montenegro
Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation. ‘A Compilation of the NGO Report from Balkan Countries: Serbia’. Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). pp. 234-283.
Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation. 2002. ‘A Compilation of NGO Reports from Balkan Countries: Montenegro.’ Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). 204-233.
Lyth, Annette (ed.) 2001. ‘Getting it Right – A Gender Approach to UNMIK Administration in Kosovo’, Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, http://www.iktk.se/publikationer/rapporter/pdf/Kosovorapport.pdf
Montenegro Government homepage, www.vlada.cg.yu
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, www.osce.org/odihr
OSCE Mission to Kosovo, www.osce.org/kosovo
OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, http://www.osce.org/sam
Serbia and Montenegro Parliament website, http://www.skupstina.gov.yu/index_en.php?lang=en
Stability Pact Gender Task Force (SPGTF). 2002. ‘Building National Gender Equality Mechanisms in South East Europe: Women's Use of the State’.
Stojkovic, Dragan. 2003. ‘A Farewell to Yugoslavia,’ Transitions online, http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1&NrArticle=8673
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro, www.mfa.gov.yu
Woodward, Alison. 2001. ‘Women Are Doing It: Building a Gender Balanced Democracy Using Sticks, Carrots and Kisses’. Stability Pact Gender Task Force Regional Meeting, Slovenia (SPGTF).
Slovakia
Jalusic, Vlasta and Milica Antic. 2000. Prospects for Gender Equality Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. Vienna: Institute for Human Sciences.
Slovakian Parliament website, http://www.nrsr.sk/
Wolchik, Sharon L. 1998. ‘Gender and the Politics of Transition in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.’ Jacquette, Jane and Sharon L. Wolchik (eds.). Women and Democracy. Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. John Hopkins University Press. pp-153-184.
Slovenia
Antić, M.G. 2004. ‘Women in Slovene Parliament: Below the Critical Mass’, in M.G. Antić and G. Ilonszki (eds) Women in Parliamentary Politics, Hungarian and Slovene experiences compared, Ljubljana: Peace Institute, pp. 81–116.
Antić, M.G. and Gortnar, M. 2004. ‘Gender Quotas in Slovenia: A short analysis of failures and hopes’, European political science, 3, 3: 73–81.
Antić, M.G. and Ilonszki, G. 2004. Women in Parliamentary Politics, Hungarian and Slovene Experiences Compared, Ljubljana: Peace Institute.
Government of the Republic of Slovenia, Public Relations and Media Office, www.gov.si.
Hrženjak, M. (ed.) 2002. Making Her Up: Women’s Magazines in Slovenia, Ljubljana: Peace Institute.
Jalušič, V. 1994. ‘Troubles with Democracy: Women and Slovene Independence’, in J. Benderl and E. Kraft (eds) Independent Slovenia: Origins, Movements, Prospects, New York: St. Martin’s Press, pp. 135–58.
Jalušič, V. 1999. ‘Women in Post-Socialist Slovenia: Socially Adapted, Politically Marginalised’, in S.P. Ramet (ed.) Gender Politics in the western Balkans: Women, Society and Politics in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav successor States, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 51–66.
Republic of Slovenia Electoral Commission, http://www.sigov.si/elections/rvk.html
Republic of Slovenia, National Assembly. Slovene Constitution. http://www.dz-rs.si/index.php?id=351&docid=25&showdoc=1
Slovenia Parliament website, http://www.dz-rs.si/
Stability Pact Gender Task Force (SPGTF). 2002. 'Building National Gender Equality Mechanisms in South East Europe – Women's Use of the State'.
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