I would also like to thank all the participants at the Understanding Informal Institutions workshop whose work and comments have greatly influenced the chapters that are included here, including Claire Annesley, Faith Armitage, Karen Beckwith, Rosie Campbell, Sarah Childs, Emma Crewe, Francesca Gains, Vivien Lowndes and Shirin Rai.

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This book has aimed to both improve our understanding of informal institutions and contribute to the development of a feminist institutionalism. It has interrogated how informal institutions are gendered, how they interact with formal institutions and the roles they can play – both positive and negative – in efforts to promote gender equality. In doing this, the chapters and the...

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Louise Chappell is Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at UNSW. Her research explores questions of the nature of gendered institutions and their effect on political, legal and corporate practices and outcomes. Chappell has published widely in this area, and her most recent book The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal...

Why do institutions and international organisations continue to affect the daily lives of women and men (and different groups of women and men) differently? Why do institutions often reproduce or exacerbate patterns of disadvantage and discrimination, even when formally espousing ideals of equality? As well as seeking to expose the rules, norms and practices through which institutions produce...