Getting Out the Vote: Women's Democratic Political Mobilization in Ghana

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2003-10-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.8.3.1H361H315L806060

K. Fallon

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Although the mobilization of women in Latin America prior to and during the transition to democracy has been well-studied, the mobilization of women in sub-Saharan Africa during this transition has received little attention. Yet, the study of women's mobilization within an emerging democratic state of sub-Saharan Africa would provide insight into how women may renegotiate their position in relation to transforming political structures, and how they may work to redefine their own rights. This article analyzes the case of Ghana to examine the mobilization ofwomen in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, multivariate analyses of a survey of 621 women and in-depth interviews with thirty-three members of women's organizations are used to explore whether women's organizations are attempting to mobilize women to participate in the formal political process during the transition to democracy, and, if so, whether their efforts are successful. The results indicate that women's organizations view the electoral process as...

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动员投票:加纳妇女的民主政治动员

虽然对拉丁美洲在向民主过渡之前和过渡期间动员妇女的问题进行了充分的研究，但对撒哈拉以南非洲在这一过渡期间动员妇女的问题却很少引起注意。然而，对撒哈拉以南非洲一个新兴民主国家内妇女动员的研究将有助于深入了解妇女如何重新谈判其与政治结构转变有关的地位，以及她们如何努力重新定义自己的权利。本文以加纳为例，考察撒哈拉以南非洲地区的妇女动员情况。具体来说，通过对621名妇女的调查和对33名妇女组织成员的深度访谈进行多变量分析，研究妇女组织是否试图动员妇女参与民主过渡期间的正式政治进程，如果是这样，他们的努力是否成功。结果表明，妇女组织认为选举过程是……

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.