Amy Alexander
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Presentation
Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Political Science and researcher in the Quality of Government Institute
Forskningsområde
I am an Assistant Professor at the Quality of Government Institute in the Department of Political Science. For the next five years my research will focus heavily on the role gender equality plays in democracies’ achievements in various aspects of quality of government. I will work on this research as part of a team of researchers working on multiple aspects of democratic performance and quality of government headed by Bo Rothstein through the PERDEM project. In this capacity, I will pursue a line of research that evaluates:
- global variation in historical patterns of gender equality, such as early household formation patterns to establish whether countries’ achievements in quality of government today can be rooted in these early patterns of equality;
- whether the political empowerment of women 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. In addition to my work with PERDEM, I will also pursue a larger women and politics’ research agenda that focuses on the sources of women’s political empowerment and how this empowerment affects political representation, social values and democratization across the globe. Current projects evaluate:
- 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;
- the international women’s movement and institutional solutions to cultural challenges to women’s empowerment;
- gender inequality and women’s effective use of democracy;
- women’s political ambition.
I have published on these and related topics in several peer-reviewed journals including Comparative Politics, the European Sociological Review and Politics and Gender.
Pågående forskning
Please see my CV for a more detailed overview of my publications and research projects.
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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 - 2021-01-01 -
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 - 2020-01-01 -
Explaining Support for Muslim Feminism in the Arab Middle East and North
Africa
S. Glas, Amy C Alexander
Gender & Society - 2020-01-01 -
Symbolic empowerment and female heads of states and government: a global, multilevel
analysis
Amy C Alexander, Farida Jalalzai
Politics, Groups and Identities - 2020-01-01 -
THE EFFECT OF GENDER ON CORRUPTION. Sorting out explanations for gender differences with new experimental
research
Ina Kubbe, Amy C Alexander, Lena Wängnerud
- 2019-01-01 -
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 - 2019-01-01 -
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 - 2018-01-01 -
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 - 2018-01-01 -
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 - 2018-01-01 -
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. - 2017-01-01 -
Emancipating Sexuality: Breakthroughs into a Bulwark of
Tradition
Amy C Alexander, R. Inglehart, C. Welzel
Social Indicators Research - 2016-01-01 -
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 - 2016-01-01 -
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 - 2016-01-01 -
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 - 2016-01-01 -
Defining Women's Global Political Empowerment: Theories and
Evidence
Amy C Alexander, C. Bolzendahl, F. Jalalzai
Sociology Compass - 2016-01-01