Women in Legislative Studies

We are transitioning over to 🟦. Find us there under the handle WinLS! This account will remain active until November 30.

Great way to start a Friday. Exciting work by excellent legislative and public opinion scholars. @alisonwcraig @KornbergMaya #KatherineTate @W_inLS @womenalsoknow

Learn more about Republican women's representation in Congress in Catherine Wineinger's book Gendering the GOP. Find it here: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

This month's professional development seminar focuses on publishing! A roundtable of journal editors will share their guidance and answer questions. It's happening this Friday (Nov. 17) from 2-3pm Eastern. Register here for the Zoom link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Our monthly writing group meets next Monday, November 13, from 2:30-3:30 Eastern. Register to write with us here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Don't miss Jordan Butcher's new book, Navigating Term Limits: The Careers of State Legislators. This book provides the most up-to-date analysis of term limits with info on 12 term-limited state legislatures and interviews from 4 states. More here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Hot of the press! Our article ‘Political Narratives in Political Representation’ is just published @EJPRjournal. @ZahraRunderkamp and I study how ethnic minority members of parliament use personal stories and family histories to counter stereotypes ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

The Gender and Political Participation working group is seeking abstracts for Spring 2024. The call is open to all graduate students and post-docs. Info + submissions here: docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/1d…

Had a great time last week attending and presenting at the second annual @W_inLS conference! WiLS has created an awesome community of women scholars doing impressive legislative research. Very grateful to be a part of it!

The rooms were packed with talented women scholars. @womenalsoknow @TaubmanCtr

How many political scientists does it take to organize a group photo? Great memories from our conference last month...

This morning, @alisonwcraig explains how collaboration in Congress actually does exist!

Picturesque day at @BrownUniversity for the first day of @W_inLS conference ☀️ Excited to learn from a group of brilliant women in the field over the next few days.

Lots of fantastic research happening today!

Day 1 of our annual conference at Brown began today with a fantastic lunch panel on publishing strategies. Reply below with what you’re enjoying today and with your photos!

Out in paperback this December: Ana Catalano Weeks's book Making Gender Salient on the impacts of gender quotas on public policy. Preorder here: cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) at Sciences Po (Paris, France) is hiring for a one-year postdoc in policy evaluation. Applications due by November 6 - more information and application here: sciencespo.fr/liepp/fr/conte…

Come join me at the @W_inLS research seminar today! 2-3 PM EST!

Job listing at Brown - assistant prof level. @BrownUPoliSci is joining an interdisciplinary search on entrepreneurship. Here is the posting apply.interfolio.com/133583. Review of applications starts November 1st. @APSAtweets @W_inLS @womenalsoknow

Learn more about Poland's recent elections and what they mean for the makeup of parliament and for democracy, from @AnnaGBusse. 📖 Read all about it here: goodauthority.org/news/how-histo…

Excited to present at @W_inLS this Friday! My book w/ Sarah Treul explores the causes and consequences of amateur politicians' growing success in congressional elections Work from this project is conditionally accepted at AJPS, check it out here: rachelporter.org/files/porter_t…