Opportunities for innovation are created by broad restructuring processes and by the chance
to be in at the start of new or substantially revised political institutions. These intuitions have …

Challenging and transforming political institutions has long been recognized as central to
feminist projects of change. Existing institutions can be reformed and/or new institutions …

Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This
groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a …

Abstract Gender, Politics, and Institutions–and the international network of scholars involved
in this collaborative enterprise1–is animated by the desire to find new tools and analytical …

On the face of it, there is considerable potential for productive dialogue between sociological
institutionalism (SI) and institutionally oriented feminist political science (FPS). Both …

Institutions–the formal and informal 'rules of the game'–profoundly shape political life.
Political institutions are also inescapably gendered. In this groundbreaking collection we …

Institutionalizing women's interests in all areas and sectors of policy at all levels has been a
concern of women's movements worldwide, as well as of international institutions such as …

Let us first lay our cards on the table: We are both invested in the “feminist institutionalist
project” and have highlighted the potential benefits of such a synthesis in earlier …

Why develop a comparative politics of gender? As the critical perspectives in this section
demonstrate, there are many answers to this question. I would like to focus here on two …

The “institutional turn” in political science reflects a wider consensus among both feminist
and mainstream scholars that institutions—broadly defined as the formal and informal “rules …