Lee Ann Banaszak
Political Science and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
I am Department Head in Political Science and Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. My primary research interests are in comparative political behavior, social movements, voting rights and women and politics with a focus on post-industrial democracies. I have served on the State of Pennsylvania's Redistricting Reform Commission and the Governor's Advisory Council on Redistricting. I am also a former Fulbright Scholar and an alumni of the Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellowship program.
Research Interests
My books include Why Movements Succeed or Fail (Princeton University Press), The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State (Cambridge University Press), Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State edited with Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht (Cambridge University Press), and 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment edited with Holly McCammon (Oxford University Press). Additional work has been published in the Social Forces, Electoral Studies, Public Opinion Quarterly, and American Political Science Review.
Publications
Measuring Protest for Comparisons: Multi-Dimensional Scaling of Action, Message, and Community Mobilization: An International Quarterly 25:3 (September 2020): 339-363. (with Kevin Reuning).
Do the Government Positions Held by Women Matter? A Cross-National Examination of Female Ministers’ Impacts on Women’s Political Participation. Politics & Gender 13 (March 2017): 132-162. (with Shan-Jan Sarah Liu).