RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Institutions
Representation
Gender
Public Policy Formation
Book Manuscript Summary
In my book manuscript, Strategic Feminism: Women’s Rights in American Foreign Policy, I analyze the relationship between women’s rights and American foreign policy in the US Congress. I explore what motivates members of Congress, with limited time and resources, to legislate on behalf of foreign women and compare the policy objectives of what I call women’s rights foreign policy (WRFP) legislation. I apply a mixed-method approach from a feminist theoretical perspective. I created two original datasets for this project. First, the Women’s Rights Foreign Policy Legislation Dataset, which includes all WRFP introduced between 1972-2010. Second, my Congressional Women’s Rights Foreign Policy Entrepreneurship Dataset includes information on all members of Congress between 2005-2010, including WRFP bill sponsorship. To illustrate the nuances of the WRFP process, I conduct qualitative case study analyses on the three most widely supported women’s rights foreign policy bills introduced during the 111th Congress (2009-10): 1) a bill supporting the ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); 2) the International Violence Against Women Act of 2010 (IVAWA); and 3) the International Protecting Girls from Child Marriage Act of 2009.
Article
"Representing All Women, An Analysis of Congress, Foreign Policy, and the Boundaries of Women’s Surrogate Representation" Political Research Quarterly, March 2017, Available Online (Nov.21, 2016): http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1065912916675737
Political Institutions
Representation
Gender
Public Policy Formation
Book Manuscript Summary
In my book manuscript, Strategic Feminism: Women’s Rights in American Foreign Policy, I analyze the relationship between women’s rights and American foreign policy in the US Congress. I explore what motivates members of Congress, with limited time and resources, to legislate on behalf of foreign women and compare the policy objectives of what I call women’s rights foreign policy (WRFP) legislation. I apply a mixed-method approach from a feminist theoretical perspective. I created two original datasets for this project. First, the Women’s Rights Foreign Policy Legislation Dataset, which includes all WRFP introduced between 1972-2010. Second, my Congressional Women’s Rights Foreign Policy Entrepreneurship Dataset includes information on all members of Congress between 2005-2010, including WRFP bill sponsorship. To illustrate the nuances of the WRFP process, I conduct qualitative case study analyses on the three most widely supported women’s rights foreign policy bills introduced during the 111th Congress (2009-10): 1) a bill supporting the ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); 2) the International Violence Against Women Act of 2010 (IVAWA); and 3) the International Protecting Girls from Child Marriage Act of 2009.
Article
"Representing All Women, An Analysis of Congress, Foreign Policy, and the Boundaries of Women’s Surrogate Representation" Political Research Quarterly, March 2017, Available Online (Nov.21, 2016): http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1065912916675737
