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Amy Alexander
Senior Lecturer
Department of Political ScienceAbout Amy Alexander
Presentation
Associate Professor (Docent) in the Department of Political Science, member of the collegium of the Quality of Government Institute and Principal Investigator of the World Values Survey South Africa
Research interests
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. My research focuses on gender, gender equality and politics. Recent and current projects evaluate:
- the relationship between gender attitudes, political authoritarianism and democratic values;
- gender, gender equality and corruption;
-the measurement of individuals' diversity in their gender identities and the impact on political attitudes and behavior;
-the measurement of individuals' gender equality and freedom of sexuality attitudes and the impact on political attitudes and behavior;
- global variation in historical patterns of gender equality and implications for countries' societal achievements today;
- how women's empowerment and gender equality improves quality of government and through which mechanisms the influence operates;
- the variation in democracies’ efforts to develop institutions, rights and policies that empower gender diversity.
- the effects of growth in women’s political representation on women’s political knowledge, political engagement, and beliefs concerning women’s suitability as political leaders.
I have published on these and related topics in several peer-reviewed journals including Political Research Quarterly; International Organization, Comparative Politics, Social Indicators Research, the European Sociological Review, Gender and Society, the Journal of Comparative Economics, Public Choice, and Politics and Gender.
Current research
Please see my CV for a more detailed overview of my publications and research projects.
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For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member
states
Amy C Alexander, Nicholas Charron, Gefjon Off
European Journal of Political Research - 2024 -
Risk averse or pro-social: sorting out why women are less corrupt than men with new experimental
data
Ina Kubbe, Amy C Alexander, Lena Wängnerud
Handbook on Gender and Corruption in Democracies. Edited by Tiffany D. Barnes, Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin and Emily Beaulieu, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, US - 2024 -
The foundational effects of gender: Exploring Latin American Elites' perceptions of
corruption
Asbel Bohigues, Jennifer M. Piscopo, Amy C Alexander
LEGISLATIVE STUDIES QUARTERLY - 2024 -
The Lancet Commission on peaceful societies through health equity and gender
equality
Valerie Percival, Oskar T. Thoms, Ben Oppenheim, Dane Rowlands, Carolyn Chisadza, Sara Fewer, Gavin Yamey, Amy C Alexander, Chloe L. Allaham, Sara Causevic, François Daudelin, Siri Gloppen, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Maseh Hadaf, Samuel Henderson, Steven J. Hoffman, Ana Langer, Toni Joe Lebbos, Luiz Leomil, Minna Lyytikäinen, Anju Malhotra, Paul Mkandawire, Holly A. Norris, Ole Petter Ottersen, Jason Phillips, Sigrún Rawet, Alexa Salikova, Idil Shekh Mohamed, Ghazal Zazai, Tarja Halonen, Catherine Kyobutungi, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Peter Friberg
The Lancet - 2023 -
MASCULINITY, SEXISM AND POPULIST RADICAL RIGHT
SUPPORT
H. Coffe, M. Fraile, Amy C Alexander, J. Fortin-Rittberger, S. Banducci
Frontiers in Political Science - 2023 -
Opening the Attitudinal Black Box: Three Dimensions of Latin American Elites' Attitudes about Gender
Equality
Amy C Alexander, A. Bohigues, J. M. Piscopo
Political Research Quarterly - 2023 -
The roots of female emancipation: Initializing role of Cool
Water
M. Santos Silva, Amy C Alexander, S. Klasen, C. Welzel
Journal of Comparative Economics - 2023 -
Female representation and electoral clientelism: New insights from South African municipal
electionss
Amy C Alexander, Nicholas Charron, M. K. Justesen
Electoral Studies - 2023 -
Female representation and electoral clientelism: New insights from South African municipal
elections
Amy C Alexander, Nicholas Charron, Mogens Kamp Justesen
Electoral Studies - 2023 -
Who perceives women's rights as threatening to men and boys? Explaining modern sexism among young men in
Europe
Gefjon Off, Nicholas Charron, Amy C Alexander
Frontiers in Political Science - 2022 -
Who perceives women's rights as threatening to men and boys? Explaining modern sexism among young men in
Europe.
Gefjon Off, Nicholas Charron, Amy C Alexander
Frontiers in Political Science - 2022 -
Gender, socio-political cleavages and the co-constitution of gender identities: A multidimensional analysis of self-assessed masculine and feminine
characteristics
Amy C Alexander, C. Bolzendahl, Patrik Öhberg
European Journal of Politics and Gender - 2021 -
Explaining Support for Muslim Feminism in the Arab Middle East and North
Africa
S. Glas, Amy C Alexander
Gender & Society - 2020 -
Explaining support for muslim feminism in the Arab Middle East and North
Africa
Amy C Alexander, S. Glas
Gender & Society - 2020 -
Are women more likely to throw the rascals out? The mobilizing effect of social service spending on female
voters
Amy C Alexander, Andreas Bågenholm, Nicholas Charron
Public Choice - 2020 -
Symbolic empowerment and female heads of states and government: a global, multilevel
analysis
Amy C Alexander, Farida Jalalzai
Politics, Groups and Identities - 2020 -
Gender Stereotyping and Chivalry in International Negotiations: A Survey Experiment in the Council of the European
Union
Daniel Naurin, Elin Naurin, Amy C Alexander
International Organization - 2019 -
THE EFFECT OF GENDER ON CORRUPTION. Sorting out explanations for gender differences with new experimental
research
Ina Kubbe, Amy C Alexander, Lena Wängnerud
2019 -
Does Gender Matter? Female Politicians’ Engagement in Anti-Corruption
Efforts
Andreas Bågenholm, Amy C Alexander
Gender and Corruption. Historical Roots and New Avenues for Research - 2018 -
A multilevel study of gender egalitarian values across Muslim-majority provinces: the role of women and urban
spaces
Amy C Alexander, S. Parhizkari
International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale De Sociologie - 2018 -
Got Milk? How Freedoms Evolved From Dairying
Climates
E. Van de Vliert, C. Welzel, A. Shcherbak, R. Fischer, Amy C Alexander
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology - 2018 -
Are women MPs more concerned about corruption than men? A comparative analysis of the written parliamentary questions in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the United
Kingdom.
Andreas Bågenholm, Amy C Alexander, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca
Paper presented at the APSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco 31 August – 3 September 2017. - 2017 -
How does civil conflict influence gender equality? A case study of the Egyptian Revolution
2011-2013
Amy C Alexander, R. Apell
International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale De Sociologie - 2016 -
Defining Women's Global Political Empowerment: Theories and
Evidence
Amy C Alexander, C. Bolzendahl, F. Jalalzai
Sociology Compass - 2016 -
Emancipating Sexuality: Breakthroughs into a Bulwark of
Tradition
Amy C Alexander, R. Inglehart, C. Welzel
Social Indicators Research - 2016 -
Gendered negotiations. A survey experiment on the importance of stereotyping for the behavior of state negotiators in the EU Council of
Ministers.
Daniel Naurin, Elin Naurin, Amy C Alexander
Gothenburg-Barcelona workshop on experimental political science. 6-7 May 2016. Barcelona - 2016 -
Gender stereotyping and chivalry in international negotiations. A survey experiment in the Council of the European
Union
Daniel Naurin, Elin Naurin, Amy C Alexander
Paper presented at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Sep 1-4 - 2016