Recent research
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.
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2026
When the Personal Becomes Political: Sexual Assault and Women’s Political Engagement
Journal of Politics. Ahead of print.
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2026
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems
American Political Science Review. 120(2), 527–545.
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2025
How Migrating Overseas Shapes Political Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment
International Organization. 79(4), 601–638.
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2025
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2024
A Global Analysis of Transgender Rights: Introducing the Trans Rights Indicator Project (TRIP)
Perspectives on Politics. 22(3), 799–818.
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2023
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan
American Political Science Review. 117(1), 1–21.
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2023
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2023
The Patriarchal Political Order: The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India
Cambridge University Press.
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2023
Strength in Numbers: How Women’s Groups Close India’s Political Gender Gap
American Journal of Political Science. 67(2), 390–410.
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2023
Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation
American Journal of Political Science. 67(3), 538–552.
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2023
Gender and the Influence of Proportional Representation: A Comment on the Peripheral Voting Thesis
American Political Science Review. 117(2), 759–766.
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2023
Take (Her) to the Limit: Term Limits Do Not Diminish Women’s Overperformance in Legislative Office
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 48, 681–694.
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2023
Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition
American Political Science Review. 117(4), 1465–1485.
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2022
Follow the Money: Gender, Incumbency, and Campaign Funding in Chile
Comparative Political Studies. 55(2), 222–253.
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2022
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2022
Conflict, Protection, and Punishment: Repercussions of Violence in Eastern DR Congo
American Journal of Political Science. 66, 187–204.
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2021
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Assessing the Effect of Gender Norms on the Lethality of Female Suicide Terrorism
International Organization. 75, 769–802.
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2021
Culture, Capital, and the Political Economy Gender Gap: Evidence from Meghalaya’s Tribes
Journal of Politics. 83(3), 834–850.
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2021
To Emerge? Breadwinning, Motherhood, and Women’s Decisions to Run for Office
American Political Science Review. 115(2), 379–394.
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2021
Pink-Collar Representation and Budgetary Outcomes in US States
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 46(1), 119–154.
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2020
Gender Quotas, Women’s Representation, and Legislative Diversity
Journal of Politics. 82(4), 1271–1286.
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2019
All Male Panels? Representation and Democratic Legitimacy
American Journal of Political Science. 63(1), 113–129.
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2018
The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women’s Under-Representation in Politics
American Political Science Review. 112(3), 525–541.