States of democracy [electronic resource] : gender and politics in the European Union / edited by Yvonne Galligan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 : variations 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 Matonyte -- 8. Gender democracy in Poland : an empty shell / Katarzyna Zielinska -- 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.