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Gendering Comparative Politics: Achievements and Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2011

Mona Lena Krook
Mona Lena Krook
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Washington Universityin St. Louis
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Approximately one-fifth, or 21%, of the members of the American Political Science Association identify themselves as comparativists, according to data in 2004. Among those affiliated with the APSA Women and Politics Research Section, the corresponding figure is nearly one-third, or 31% (Tripp 2010, 192). While not a majority, these patterns suggest that gender and politics scholars have been attracted in greater proportions to this particular subfield. The reasons for this, Karen Beckwith (2010) has noted, are linked to features of comparative politics particularly conducive to work on gender: an interest in answering “real world” questions, a lack of a hegemonic research agenda making the subfield more open to new topics, an emphasis on methodological pluralism valuing the contributions of qualitative and case study analysis, and a stress on fieldwork as an important vehicle for data collection.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 99 - 105
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2011

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