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Research workshopped through EGEN

One of our key goals is to get cutting-edge research on gender and politics into mainstream discourse in political science. We push scholars in our network to study pressing current events and to use their research to change public policy.

All of the work below was workshopped at an EGEN convening before publication in the discipline’s leading journals and presses. This is a selection — many others appear elsewhere.

Women in office

  • 2026

    Bureaucratic Discretion Against Female Politicians

    Purohit, Bhumi

    Comparative Political Studies. Ahead of print.

  • 2025

    Who Actually Governs? Gender Inequality and Political Representation in Rural India

    Heinze, Alyssa R., Rachel E. Brulé, and Simon Chauchard

    Journal of Politics. 87(2), 818–822.

  • 2023

    Take (Her) to the Limit: Term Limits Do Not Diminish Women’s Overperformance in Legislative Office

    Holman, Mirya, and Anna Mahoney

    Legislative Studies Quarterly. 48, 681–694.

  • 2022

    Corruption, Accountability, and Women’s Access to Power

    Armstrong, Brenna, Tiffany Barnes, Diana Z. O’Brien, and Michelle Taylor-Robinson

    Journal of Politics. 84(2), 1207–1213.

  • 2021

    Pink-Collar Representation and Budgetary Outcomes in US States

    Barnes, Tiffany D., Victoria D. Beall, and Mirya R. Holman

    Legislative Studies Quarterly. 46(1), 119–154.

  • 2020

    Gender Quotas, Women’s Representation, and Legislative Diversity

    Barnes, Tiffany D., and Mirya R. Holman

    Journal of Politics. 82(4), 1271–1286.

  • 2019

    All Male Panels? Representation and Democratic Legitimacy

    Clayton, Amanda, Diana Z. O’Brien, and Jennifer Piscopo

    American Journal of Political Science. 63(1), 113–129.

Participation and mobilization

  • 2025

    How Migrating Overseas Shapes Political Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Gaikwad, Nikhar, Kolby Hanson, and Aliz Tóth

    International Organization. 79(4), 601–638.

  • 2025

    Bayesian Multilevel Modeling for the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class

    Much, Melina

    Political Research Quarterly. 78(3), 985–1006.

  • 2023

    Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan

    Cheema, Ali, Sarah Khan, Asad Liaqat, and Shandana Khan Mohmand

    American Political Science Review. 117(1), 1–21.

  • 2023

    Women and Power in the Developing World

    Brulé, Rachel E.

    Annual Review of Political Science. 26(1), 33–54.

  • 2023

    The Patriarchal Political Order: The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India

    Prillaman, Soledad Artiz

    Cambridge University Press.

  • 2023

    Strength in Numbers: How Women’s Groups Close India’s Political Gender Gap

    Prillaman, Soledad Artiz

    American Journal of Political Science. 67(2), 390–410.

  • 2023

    Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation

    Skorge, Øyvind Søraas

    American Journal of Political Science. 67(3), 538–552.

  • 2021

    Culture, Capital, and the Political Economy Gender Gap: Evidence from Meghalaya’s Tribes

    Brulé, Rachel, and Nikhar Gaikwad

    Journal of Politics. 83(3), 834–850.

Violence, rights, and backlash

  • 2026

    When the Personal Becomes Political: Sexual Assault and Women’s Political Engagement

    Lauren Chojnacki and Amanda Clayton

    Journal of Politics. Ahead of print.

  • 2025

    Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate

    Cassese, Erin C., Heather L. Ondercin, and Jordan Randall

    Cambridge University Press.

  • 2025

    Ruling Rebel Parties and Accountability for Wartime Sexual Violence

    Brannon, Elizabeth, and Sumin Lee

    Security Studies. 34(3), 564–589.

  • 2024

    A Global Analysis of Transgender Rights: Introducing the Trans Rights Indicator Project (TRIP)

    Myles Williamson

    Perspectives on Politics. 22(3), 799–818.

  • 2022

    Conflict, Protection, and Punishment: Repercussions of Violence in Eastern DR Congo

    Lindsey, Summer

    American Journal of Political Science. 66, 187–204.

  • 2021

    Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Assessing the Effect of Gender Norms on the Lethality of Female Suicide Terrorism

    Thomas, Jakana

    International Organization. 75, 769–802.

Running and winning public office

  • 2026

    Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems

    Smith, Daniel, Alexandra Cirone, Dawn Teele, Gary Cox, and Jon Fiva

    American Political Science Review. 120(2), 527–545.

  • 2023

    Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition

    Clayton, Amanda, Jennifer M. Piscopo, and Diana Z. O’Brien

    American Political Science Review. 117(4), 1465–1485.

  • 2023

    Gender and the Influence of Proportional Representation: A Comment on the Peripheral Voting Thesis

    Teele, Dawn Langan

    American Political Science Review. 117(2), 759–766.

  • 2022

    Follow the Money: Gender, Incumbency, and Campaign Funding in Chile

    Hinojosa, Magda, Jennifer Piscopo, Peter Siavelis, and Gwynn Thomas

    Comparative Political Studies. 55(2), 222–253.

  • 2021

    To Emerge? Breadwinning, Motherhood, and Women’s Decisions to Run for Office

    Bernhard, Rachel, Shauna Shames, and Dawn Teele

    American Political Science Review. 115(2), 379–394.

  • 2018

    The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women’s Under-Representation in Politics

    Teele, Dawn, Joshua Kalla, and Frances Rosenbluth

    American Political Science Review. 112(3), 525–541.

Men and masculinities

  • 2025

    Hostile Sexism and Overconfidence Shape the Public’s Views of Climate Change

    Benegal, Salil, and Mirya R. Holman

    Climatic Change. 178(8).

  • 2023

    Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide

    Bush, Sarah Sunn, and Amanda Clayton

    American Political Science Review. 117(2), 591–608.