This book explores the gendered dynamics of institutional innovation, continuity and change
in candidate selection and recruitment. Drawing on the insights of feminist institutionalism, it …

Why Aren't They There? is a comprehensive study of political representation in a cross-
national format, making a cross-country comparison of the representation of women, ethnic …

Cross-sectional research designs show that proportional representation (PR) tends to
produce more equitable outcomes in terms of gender representation. While existing …

Although home to the majority of the world's women, Asia is the continent with the smallest
proportion of women in Parliament. Rarely studied from a comparative perspective, this …

Recent work on the regulation of political parties looks at the question of whether increasing
regulation promotes democracy, or whether it creates barriers to entry and thus damages at …

'Contagion theory'suggests that the dynamics of diffusion and competition influence a party's
propensity to put forward more women candidates–or to adopt candidate gender quotas, in …

While Australia commences life under a new government and the end of the first female
Prime Ministership, and the Northern Territory reassesses the issue of statehood and …

Political parties can make or break women's attempts to stand for political office, yet there
have been surprisingly few systematic studies into the 'secret garden'of political recruitment …

The starting point of this dissertation is the ongoing debate on the decline of parliaments and
decreasing trust in parliaments. Parliamentary decline thesis and decreasing trust in …

What accounts for the substantial variation across the legal application of gender equality?
In this paper, I will test a new typology of gender equality and its associated theory, on the …