Current Research
My current research agenda focuses on several questions: 1) I am currently working on a larger book project examining voting rights at the intersection of race, class and gender in a comparative perspective; 2) I have two projects examining women's political leadership. With Erica Dollhopf and Megan Kennedy, I am collecting the employment life course of social movement organizational leaders to examine how working for government influences their ability to lead. I have also begun some projects examining women national leaders with Donna Bahry, Susan Welch, and Lindsay Walsh; 3) John McCarthy, Chris Fowler, Dane Mataic, and I are exploring inequity in the purging of voter rolls for voter inactivity, and 4) I am also in the final stages of editing the Handbook of Feminist Governance with Jacqui True, Johanna Kantola, and Marian Sawer.
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Recent Projects
Handbook of Feminist Governance (with Jacqui True, Johanna Kantola, and Marian Sawer eds.)
Differentially Disenfranchising Voters for Not Voting (with Chris Fowler, John McCarthy, and Dane Mataic)
Insider activism and Leadership of Social Movement Organizations (with Erica Dollhopf and Megan Kennedy)
Women Political Leaders (with Donna Bahry, Susan Welch, and Lindsay Walsh)
Learning Protest (With Shan-Jan Sarah Liu and Burcin Tamer) (Supported with a grant from the Spencer Foundation)
This Handbook presents the debates over feminist governance, the role of insiders and outsiders, transnational networks, ‘autonomous women’s movements’ and international and regional norm transmission, as well as political, bureaucratic and organizational dynamics and the production of state-of-the-art feminist governance expertise and toolkits.
The purging of voter rolls and inequalities in registration are increasingly an area of public interest with some states moving towards more restricted voting laws while adopting automatic voter registration. Understanding how politics affects the definition of voter rolls, particularly the degree to which institutions and partisan control affect inequalities in voter rolls is important for understanding the functioning of the American democracy.
This project uses original data collection on organizations in the United States and their leaders to examine whether social movement organizations benefit from having had leaders who have served in government and the degree to which leaders in social movement organizations may end up serving afterward in government institutions.
Using an original dataset of political leaders exit from office, this project examines the trajectory of women leaders careers after ascending to office focusing on their duration in office, reasons for exit.
This project uses cross-national surveys of young peoples to examine how youth attitudes are affected by the use of protest. The project asks how does a nation’s political context – specifically the amount and form of protest – influence young citizens’ civic attitudes?
