This article compares abortion laws, regulations and access patterns in the United Kingdom
and the Republic of Ireland. We focus in most detail on the Republic of Ireland, Northern …

Nationalism has long been understood to be a deeply gendered phenomenon. This article
provides an overview of some of the key concepts and literature in the study of gender and …

This is an exciting time in the development of the gendered study of legislatures, both
theoretically and empirically. Over the last decade, we have seen innovative work employing …

While policy scholars have elaborated on the ways in which social movements operate
within discursive struggles over meaning-making to generate policy change, less attention …

This article examines the apparent tension between power-sharing as the dominant
approach to conflict settlement and the inclusion of women and provisions for gender …

Over the past 10 years, feminist scholarship has made important contributions to the new
institutionalism in political science. This literature has developed into two directions. Some …

Examining the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate in Britain, this
innovative and important book shows why it is necessary to move beyond an understanding …

Studies of federalism or multilevel governance (MLG) have very rarely taken into account
issues of gender, while, at the same time, feminist political science has often ignored or …

While gender has been widely used as an analytical category to understand the dynamics of
conflict transformation in Northern Ireland, surprisingly little has been written on the ways in …

The recent rise in anti-feminist resistance in Europe, occurring within a longer history of
unravelling feminist policy gains, poses significant challenges for feminists. While scholars …