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The Double Democratic Deficit in Climate Policy-making by the EU Commission

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2016 , Heft: 2 , Band: 25 , 64–77 S.

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Verfasst von: Magnusdottir, Gunnhildur Lily; Kronsell, Annica
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Jahr: 2016
Heft: 2
Band: 25
ISSN: issn:1433-6359
Sprache: Englisch
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Abels and Mushaben (2012) argue that there is a double democratic deficit in the European Union regarding gender: women are underrepresented within the EU institutions and gender awareness is lacking in EU policymaking. This article contributes to this scholarship with a specific focus on the climate domain. The EU is an important constructor of the international climate regime and the Union is committed to gender mainstream all its policies and processes. Furthermore, there are documented gender differences in Europe regarding behaviour and views on climate change. This article investigates the relevance of the double democratic deficit for the EU´s climate policymaking. We map the representation of female and male experts at the European Commission´s climate units and search for gender recognition in the EU´s climate documents. There we discover silence regarding gender, confirmed through interviews with policy-makers. Using feminist institutionalism we conclude that existing gender power relations within the Commission affect the explored climate units, which reproduce masculine institutional practices.
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