This article seeks to rethink how scholars have traditionally studied women's substantive
representation. It outlines a framework that aims to replace questions like 'Do women …

Abstract The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has developed at the United
Nations over the course of the past 15 years, and there have been critical engagements with …

This article argues that the concept of 'state feminism'no longer adequately captures the
complexity of emerging feminist engagements with new forms of governance. It suggests …

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 …

Purpose Gender equality levels opportunities for men and women and reduces the initial
capital constraints women often face, and yet as entrepreneurship opportunities for women …

One of the sharpest criticisms of welfare state research is insufficient attention to factors
relating to gender relations and inequalities. Recent scholarship has begun to address …

The aim of this paper is to assess the potential of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GBR) for
engendering social change and supporting gender equality. In this paper, we argue that …

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

Drawing on theories of representative bureaucracy, we examine whether increased
representation of women in police forces in England leads to a higher rate of domestic …

This is major new introduction to women's political involvement and role in the liberal
democratic world drawing examples from a wide range of countries to illustrate key common …