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Gender and democratic resilience against autocratisation: the case of Romania’s ‘gender identity’ bill (2023)
Journal Article

This article argues that, given the centrality of gender for recent processes of autocratisation, it has become imperative to understand and theorise the conditions underpinning democratic resilience against opposition to gender equality. I conceptua... Read More about Gender and democratic resilience against autocratisation: the case of Romania’s ‘gender identity’ bill.

Enlargement (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter argues that the European union's (EU’s) eastwards expansion in particular marked a watershed moment in the development of the EU’s enlargement policy, and that this had momentous consequences for gender equality policy in the new member... Read More about Enlargement.

Gender, institutions and political representation : reproducing male dominance in Europe’s new democracies (2017)
Book
Chiva, M. (2017). Gender, institutions and political representation : reproducing male dominance in Europe’s new democracies. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-01177-0

This book traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout... Read More about Gender, institutions and political representation : reproducing male dominance in Europe’s new democracies.

EU accession and party competition in post-communist Romania (2014)
Journal Article
Chiva, M. (2014). EU accession and party competition in post-communist Romania. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 14(1), 65-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2014.882616

This paper examines the impact of the EU on party competition in post-communist
Romania by testing Robert Ladrech’s model for the Europeanization of
Central and East European party systems. It argues that, although it certainly
holds true for a va... Read More about EU accession and party competition in post-communist Romania.

Gender, European integration and candidate recruitment : the European Parliament elections in the new EU member states (2012)
Journal Article
Chiva, M. (2014). Gender, European integration and candidate recruitment : the European Parliament elections in the new EU member states. Parliamentary Affairs, 67(2), 458-494. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gss047

The paper investigates women's representation in the European Parliament delegations of the new member states by bringing together three distinct strands of scholarship: the second-order elections model, feminist theories of candidate recruitment and... Read More about Gender, European integration and candidate recruitment : the European Parliament elections in the new EU member states.

The limits of Europeanisation: EU accession and gender equality in Bulgaria and Romania (2009)
Journal Article
Chiva, C. (2009). The limits of Europeanisation: EU accession and gender equality in Bulgaria and Romania. Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 10(2), 150-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/15705850902899230

The paper seeks to bridge the existing gap between three distinct strands of
literature: scholarship on EU enlargement; studies of social policy in the European Union; and
feminist theorising on equality between men and women. It explores the impac... Read More about The limits of Europeanisation: EU accession and gender equality in Bulgaria and Romania.