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The RNGS group is comprised of conveners, active research members, directors, and associates. Five conveners coordinate RNGS activities. Research members have conducted the research using the RNGS project design and published on at least one issue area for one country (go to list of RNGS publications). Directors coordinate the five issue networks<\/a>; country team directors coordinate research on issues among several research team members. Associates include a range of experts and policy practitioners interested in RNGS research and adjacent topics. They do not work directly on the RNGS research. Consultants consist of experts who have helped us with advice on the data construction phase of the project. This section presents the biographical sketches of the RNGS members and the list of associates and consultants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country Team Directors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dorothy McBride (USA)
Amy Mazur (France)
Joyce Outshoorn (The Netherlands)
Marila Guadagnini (Italy)
Joni Lovenduski (The UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynn Kamenitsa (Germany)
Lynn Kamenitsa is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women\u2019s Studies at Northern Illinois University. Her previous research has focused on abortion policy, local women\u2019s offices, and the women\u2019s movement in united Germany, and women\u2019s and other social movements from the former East Germany. Her work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Women & Politics, Problems of Post-Communism, Mobilization, and Germany Politics & Society.\u201d She conducted her RNGS research on political representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celia Valiente (Spain)
Celia Valiente is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain . Her main research interests are public policies and social movements in Spain from a perspective on gender. Her publications include Pol\u00edticas P\u00fablicas de G\u00e9nero en Perspectiva Comparada: La Mujer Trabajadora en Italia y Espa\u00f1a (1900-1996) (Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid, 1997). She conducted RNGS research on Spain on all five of the issue areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evelyn Mahon (Ireland)
Evelyn Mahon is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin where she is Director of the M.Sc. In Applied Social Research. An active policy oriented sociologist, she has conducted research and published on gender and work and on social inequalities. She was Research Director (1995-97) of the Women and Crisis Pregnancy in Ireland study commissioned by the Department of Health and co-author of its final report. She conducted RNGS research on the abortion issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Maria Holli (Finland)
Anne Maria Holli, PhD, is Research Fellow (Academy of Finland) at the Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki. Her major areas of research are in the fields of public equality policies, Nordic gender equality discourses, and gender and politics. Her most recent publications include: Discourse and Politics for Gender Equality in Late Twentieth Century Finland (Helsinki University Press, 2003) and chapters on Finland in the international RNGS project on gender politics: State Feminism, Women\u2019s Movements and Job Training: Making Democracies Work in the Global Economy, ed. by Amy Mazur (Routledge, 2001), The Politics of Prostitution. Women\u2019s Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce, ed. by Joyce Outshoorn (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Feminism and Political Representation of Women in Europe and North America,ed. by Joni Lovenduski, Petra Meier, Diane Sainsbury, Marila Guadagnini and Claudie Baudino (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Gendering the State in the Age of Globalisation: Women\u2019s Movements and State Feminism in Post Industrial Democracies, ed. by Melissa Haussman and Birgit Sauer) (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming). She is also co-editor to Women\u2019s Citizenship and Political Rights (with S.K. Hellsten and K. Daskalova) (Palgrave, forthcoming). She has co-edited an anthology on gender equality policies in Finnish (2002) and published widely in referee journals and edited books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathy Teghtsoonian (Canada)
Kathy Teghtsoonian is Associate Professor in the Studies in Policy and Practice program at the University of Victoria, where she teaches courses on policy, on women in the human services, and on critical perspectives on mental illness and mental health. Her recent research has involved a comparative analysis of the (now-former) Ministry of Women\u2019s Equality in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Ministry of Women\u2019s Affairs in Aotearoa\/New Zealand. Her work in this area has focused on the gender mainstreaming initiatives undertaken by these two Ministries, and on the factors influencing their institutional fates under governments of the right. She has also completed research analyzing child care policy debates in Canada and the United States, with particular attention to the discursive construction of women, families, and women\u2019s caregiving work. Her most recent publications include \u201cDisparate Fates in Challenging Times: Women\u2019s Policy Agencies and Neoliberalism in Aotearoa\/New Zealand and British Columbia,\u201d Canadian Journal of Political Science (June 2005) and \u201cNeoliberalism and Gender Analysis Mainstreaming in Aoteaora\/New Zealand,\u201d Australian Journal of Political Science (July 2004). She conducted RNGS research, with Joan Grace, on job training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diane Sainsbury (Sweden)
Diane Sainsbury is Lars Hierta Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. She is author of Gender, Equality and Welfare States (Cambridge University Press, 1996), editor of Gendering Welfare States (Sage Publications, 1994) and Gender and Welfare State Regimes (Oxford University Press, 1999), and a contributing editor of State Feminism and Political Representation (Cambridge University Press, in press). Among her recent publications are \u2018Rights without Seats: The Puzzle of Australian Women\u2019s Legislative Recruitment\u2019, in Elections: Full, Free & Fair, ed. by Marian Sawer (The Federation Press, 2001); \u2018US Women\u2019s Suffrage through a Multicultural Lens: Intersecting Struggles of Recognition\u2019, in Recognition Struggles and Social Movements,ed. by Barbara Hobson (Cambridge University Press, 2003); \u2018Women\u2019s Political Representation in Sweden: Discursive Politics and Institutional Presence\u2019, Scandinavian Political Studies, 2004 and \u2018Party Feminism, State Feminism and Women\u2019s Representation in Sweden\u2019 in State Feminism and Political Representation, ed. by Joni Lovenduski, Petra Meier, Diane Sainbury, Marila Guadagnini and Claudie Baudino (Cambridge University Press, in press). She conducted RNGS research on political representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alison Woodward (Belgium)
Alison Woodward has a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She is Professor and Chair of the International Affairs and Politics Program of Vesalius College at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and co-founder of the Center for Women\u2019s Studies. She has held appointments at the universities of Uppsala, Antwerp and Brussels, the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm among others. She held the M. Jahoda Chair at the Ruhr University in 2001 and a Senior Research Fellowship at Wayne State University in 2003. Her primary research interest is in the field of comparative European public policy and organization, especially in the areas of equal opportunities policies, housing and alternative energy. Her current research is on transnational social movements and public policy and the role of regional parliaments in European governance. Recent publications include Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies (edited with Martin Kohli)(Routledge 2001) and Going for Gender Balance (Council of Europe 2002). She conducted RNGS research on the hot issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birgit Sauer (Austria)
Birgit Sauer is professor of political science at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. She studied political science and German literature at the University of Tuebingen and at the Free University of Berlin. Her PhD was on political rituals in the GDR (1993 at the Free University of Berlin), her Habilitation on state and democratic theory in gender perspective (University of Vienna, 2000). Her research fields include gender and political culture, gender in political institution, state theory, gender and globalisation, political ritual, symbols, and myths. Recent publications include: \u2018Taxes, Rights and Regimentation. Discourses on Prostitution in Austria\u2019, in The Politics of Prostitution. Women\u2019s Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce, ed. by Joyce Outshoorn (Cambridge University Press, 2004); \u2018Conceptualizing the German State. Putting Women\u2019s Politics in its Place\u2019, in Handbook of Global Social Policy, ed. by S. S. Nagel and A. Robb (Marcel Dekker, 2000); Die Asche des Souver\u00e4ns. Staat und Demokratie in der Geschlechterdebatte (Campus Verlag, 2001).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Sullivan (Australia)
Barbara Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. She teaches courses on the politics of gender and sexuality, feminist and political theory. Her research has spanned a number of areas including sexual citizenship, prostitution and trafficking, feminism and liberal thought. Barbara\u2019s most recent publications include articles in the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Law and Context. She has published a monograph on prostitution in Australia(The Politics of Sex Cambridge University Press 1997) and edited three collections on prostitution, citizenship and contractualism. She conducted RNGS research on prostitution and the hot issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conveners<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dorothy E. McBride (formerly Stetson), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida<\/strong>
RNGS Co Convener, Director of the Abortion Network and the USA Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For RNGS, Editor of Abortion Politics, Women\u2019s Movements and the Democratic State: A Comparative Study of State Feminism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, the RNGS research findings on the abortion issue; chapters in prostitution, job training and hot issue books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorothy McBride is Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University where she was a founder of the women\u2019s studies program. She is Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington 2006\u20132008. She earned the B.A. at the University of Montana and M.A. and Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. A specialist in the comparative study of women and public policy, she is the author of numerous articles and conference papers and the following books:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Woman\u2019s Issue: the Politics of Family Reform in England, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women\u2019s Rights in France, Westport CT : Greenwood Press, 1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women\u2019s Rights in the U.S.A: Policy Conflict and Gender Roles, New York: Garland\/Routledge, 1997; third edition 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comparative State Feminism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995 with Amy G. Mazur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross National Perspective New York: Routledge, 1996 with Marianne Githens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abortion Politics, Women\u2019s Movements and the Democratic State: A Comparative Study of State Feminism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact information: dmcbrid6@fau.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy G. Mazur, Washington State University, Pullman, WA<\/strong>
RNGS Co Convener, Director of Job Training Network and the French Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For RNGS, editor of State Feminism, Women\u2019s Movements and Job Training: Making Democracies Work in the Global Economy, New York and London: Routledge, 2001, the RNGS research report on the job training issue. Chapters in RNGS books on job training, prostitution and the hot issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy Mazur is Professor of Political Science at Washington State University. She received a joint Ph.D. in Political Science and French Studies from New York University. In Fall 2001, she was Marie-Jahoda Chair in International Women\u2019s Studies at Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum in Germany, and she is currently co-editor of Political Research Quarterly. She specializes in feminist policy formation in comparative perspective and has focused her empirical work on France. She is author of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gender Bias and the State: Symbolic Reform at Work in Fifth Republic France Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Feminism, Women\u2019s Movements and Job Training: Making Democracies Work in the Global Economy, New York and London: Routledge, 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theorizing Feminist Policy Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comparative State Feminism, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1995 with Dorothy McBride Stetson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has also published in Espace-Temps, Contemporary French Civilization, Policy Studies Journal, French Politics and Society, Political Research Quarterly, West European Politics, Review of Policy Research, and Travail Genre et Soci\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact information: mazur@mail.wsu.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyce Outshoorn, Leiden University<\/strong>
RNGS Co Convener, Director of the Prostitution Network and the Netherlands Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For RNGS, editor of The Politics of Prostitution. Women\u2019s Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters in RNGS books on prostitution, abortion, and hot issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyce Outshoorn studied political science and contemporary history at the University of Amsterdam. Since 1987 she is Professor of Women\u2019s Studies at the Joke Smit Centre for Research in Women\u2019s Studies at Leiden University, Leiden where she is also affiliated to the Department of Political Science. Her PhD was on abortion politics in the Netherlands (De politieke strijd rondom de abortuswetgeving in Nederland, 1964-1984) (VUGA, 1986). She has further published in English on state feminism, women\u2019s public policy and comparative politics. Other publications include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Politics of Abortion (Sage 1986), edited with Joni Lovenduski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Creative Tension. Essays in Socialist Feminism (Pluto Press 1984).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRegulating Prostitution as Sex Work: The Pioneer Case of the Netherlands\u201d, Acta Politica (2001).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPolicy-Making on Abortion: Arena\u2019s, Actors and Arguments in the Netherlands\u201d, in: Abortion Politics, Women\u2019s Movements, and the State (ed. by D. McBride Stetson) (Oxford University Press, 2001).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDebating Prostitution in Parliament. A Feminist Analysis\u201d, European Journal of Women\u2019s Studies (2001). She is co-director of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outshoorn, J. (2000), \u2018Abortion in the Netherlands: The Successful Pacification of a Controversial Issue\u2019, in: Krabbendam, H. and M.M. ten Napel (eds.), Regulating Morality. A Comparison of the Role of the State in Mastering the Mores in the Netherlands and the United States, Leiden\/Antwerpen: E.M. Meijers Institute\/Maklu Uitgevers, 2000, pp. 135-149.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outshoorn, Joyce (2002), \u2018Gendering the \u201cGraying\u201d of Society: A Discourse Analysis of the Care Gap\u2019, Public Administration Review, 62, March\/April, pp. 187-197.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joni Lovenduski, Birkbeck College<\/strong>
RNGS Convener, Director of the Political Representation Network and the UK Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For RNGS, she is editor (with Claudie Baudino, Marila Guadagnini, Petra Meier, Diane Sainsbury) State feminism and the Political representation of Women, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. Chapters in RNGS books on political representation and hot issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joni Lovenduski is Anniversary Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her published work on gender and politics includes Feminizing Politics (Polity Press, 2005), State Feminism and Political Representation (2005) (edited with Claudie Baudino, Maria Guadagnini, Petra Meier and Diane Sainsbury) Cambridge University Press (in press); The Hansard Report on Women at the Top (with Sarah Childs and Rosie Campbell) (Hansard Society, 2005); Gender and Political Participation (with Pippa Norris and Rosie Campbell) (Electoral Commission, 2004); Women and European Politics (Harvester, 1986), Contemporary Feminist Politics (Oxford University Press 1993) (with Vicky Randall), Political Recruitment: Gender, Race and Class in the British Parliament (Cambridge University Press 1995) (with Pippa Norris), and High Tide or High Time for Labour Women (Fabian Society 1998) (with Maria Eagle MP). She was co-editor of The Politics of the Second Electorate (Routledge, 1981), The New Politics of Abortion, (Sage, 1986) Gender and Party Politics (Sage, 1993), and editor of Feminism and Politics (Ashgate 2000), as well as many articles and essays in edited collections on issues of gender and politics. Her current research is on Gender and the State, including political representation and public policy debates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marila Guadagnini, University of Turin<\/strong>
RNGS Convener, Director of the Italy Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For RNGS, contributing editor of State feminism and the Political representation of Women, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. Chapters in RNGS books on political representation, job training, and the hot issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marila Guadagnini is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Turin, Faculty of Political Science. Her fields of study include comparative politics, Italian politics and gender studies. She is author of the books Il sistema politico italiano. Temi per una discussione (Il Segnalibro, 1997) and La stagione del disincanto? Cittadini, cittadine e politica alle soglie del 2000 (Il Segnalibro, 2001), co-author of Il soffitto di cristallo? Le donne nelle posizioni decisionali in Europa (Fondazione Olivetti, 1999), editor of Da elettrici a elette. Riforme istituzionali e rappresentanza delle donne in Italia, in Europa e negli Stati Uniti (Celid, 2003). She published numerous chapters and articles on gender and politics and wrote the chapters on Italy in the books: Comparative State Feminism, ed. by Dorothy McBride Stetson and Amy Mazur, (Sage: 1995), State Feminism, Women\u2019s Movements and Job Training: Making Democracies Work in the Global Economy, ed. by Amy Mazur, Routledge, 2001), State Feminism and Political Representation, ed. by Joni Lovenduski, Petra Meier, Diane Sainsbury, Marila Guadagnini and Claudie Baudino (Cambridge University Press, in press), and Gendering the State in the Age of Globalization, ed. by Birigit Sauer and Melissa Haussman, Rowman and Littlefield (forthcoming).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Team Members<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Janine Alisa Parry (USA)
Janine Parry is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include gender, politics and policy, and state politics and policy. She has recently published articles in Social Science Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, NWSA Journal, the Journal of Black Studies, and the American Review of Politics as well as chapters in various edited volumes including \u2018Women\u2019 s Policy Agencies, the Women\u2019s Movement, and Political Representation in the U.S\u2019, in State Feminism and Political Representation, ed. by Joni Lovenduski, Petra Meier, Diane Sainbury, Marila Guadagnini and Claudie Baudino (Cambridge University Press, in press), \u2018African Americans in the Arkansas General Assembly, 1972-1999,\u2019 in Politics in the New South: Representation of African Americans in Southern State Legislatures, ed. by Charles E. Menifield and Stephen D. Shaffer (SUNY Press, 2005), and \u2018The Women\u2019s Movement and Political Representation Policy in the U.S: 1970-2000\u2019, in Modifiche istituzionali e rappresentanza femminile. Strategie a confronto per il riequilibrio delle rappresentanza in Italia, in Europa e negli Stati Uniti (Constitutional Reforms and Women\u2019s Representation: A Comparative Analysis of Strategies to BalanceRepresentation in Italy, in Europe, and in the US), ed. by Marila Guadignini, (CELID, 2003).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claudie Baudino (France)
Claudie Baudino received her PhD. D. in Political Science from Paris IX-Dauphine University in 2000. She is currently conducting a research project on gender and political representation at the Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles. She is also a charg\u00e9e de mission responsible for research for the Regional Council of the Isle-de-France. She is a member of the RNGS (Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State) French team and conducted her RNGS research on political representation. Her research focuses on political and linguistic representation of women in France. Her publications include a forthcoming book \u2013 from a thesis \u2013 \u201cPolitique de la langue et diff\u00e9rence sexuelle. La politisation du genre des noms de m\u00e9tier\u201d (L\u2019Harmattan, Paris, 2001), \u201cLa cause des femmes \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9preuve de son institutionnalisation\u201d, revue Politix, n\u00b051, 2000, \u201cLe genre g\u00e2ch\u00e9. La f\u00e9minisation de l\u2019action publique\u201d (in collaboration with Amy G. Mazur), revue Espace-Temps, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean C. Robinson (France)
Jean C. Robinson is Professor of Political Science and Dean of Women\u2019s Affairs at Indiana University. Originally a China specialist she has also done comparative research on women\u2019s policy machinery in Poland and France and is conducting a comparative study of RU-486. She did her RNGS research on abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jantine Oldersma (Netherlands)
Jantine Oldersma studied political science, social history and communication at the University of Amsterdam and received a Ph.D in Social Sciences at Leiden University. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Public Administration and a fellow of the Joke Smit Institute, Research Centre for Women\u2019s Studies, both at Leiden University. Her dissertation was on women and corporatism in the Netherlands: De vrouw die vanzelf spreekt, gender en representatie in het Nederlandse adviesradenstelsel (DSWO-Press, 1996) She was co-editor of a volume on gender and theories of power, The Gender of Power ( Sage, 1991) (with Kathy Davis and Monique Leijenaar) and has published on gender and politics, public policy and (political) culture. Recent publications include \u2018More women or more feminists in Politics? Advocacy Coalitions and the Representation of Women in the Netherlands 1967-1992\u2019, Acta Politica, International Journal of Political Science. 37(2002), Autumn, 283-18, and \u2018High Tides in a Low Country\u2019, in State Feminism and Political Representation of Women, ed. by Joni Lovenduski, Claudie Baudino, Maria Guadagnini, Petra Meier and Diane Sainsbury (Cambridge University Press, in press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regina K\u00f6pl (Austria)
Regina K\u00f6pl is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. K\u00f6pl received her Ph.D. degree form the University of Vienna and a post-graduate-diploma from the Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna. She is author of articles and research reports on feminism and women\u2019s movement organizations in Austria. She conducted her RNGS research on abortion and political representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sieglinde Rosenberger (Austria)
Sieglinde Katharina Rosenberger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has written on gender equality and differences (Geschlechter \u2013 Gleichheiten \u2013 Differenzen, Wien 1996; Politics, Gender, and Equality, in: Contemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 6\/1998:104-119); on social and family policies; on the Austrian referendum on women\u2019s issues (Frauen begehren auf, in: Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Frauenforschung, 3\/1998: 43-58); and on democracy and gender relations (Direkte Demokratie und Geschlechterpolitik, in: Elisabeth Wolfgruber\/Petra Grabner (eds.): Politik und Geschlecht, Innsbruck-Wien-M\u00fcnchen 1999: 47-64). She conducted her RNGS research on the hot issue with Birgit Sauer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Haussman (Canada)
Melissa Haussman, PhD is an Associate Professor of Government at Suffolk University, Boston. Her research and teaching fields of interest are centered upon gender politics in North America, including representational and policy concerns. She is preparing a manuscript on the Politics of Abortion in Canada, Latin America and Mexico. Other recent publications have included, \u201cOf Rights and Power: Canada\u2019s Federal Abortion Policy, 1969-1991,\u201d in Dorothy Stetson, ed., Abortion Politics, Women\u2019s Movements and the Democratic State ( Oxford, 2001), and, \u201cCan a Woman Be Elected President: Strategic Considerations under Reformed Nomination and Financing Rules,\u201d White House Studies, (Fall 2001), v. I, n. 3; \u201cAre Women Included in the Big Tent? The Readiness of the National Democratic and Republican Parties to Nominate a Woman for President,\u201d in Robert Watson and Ann Gordon, eds., Anticipating Madame President (Lynne Rienner, 2002). In addition, she supervises Suffolk University\u2019s Washington, D.C. and state internship programs. She is co director of the hot issue network and conducted RNGS research on abortion and the hot issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petra Meier (Belgium)
Petra Meier is a research fellow at the Politics Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. Her major areas of research are feminist theories on representation, the conceptualization of measures to promote social groups in decision-making and their interaction with electoral systems, feminist approaches to public policies, the political opportunity structures of the Belgian women\u2019s movement and state feminism. She recently edited Genre et science politique en Belgique et en Francophonie (Academia-Bruylant, 2005) (with B\u00e9reng\u00e8re Marques-Pereira) and contributed the chapter on Belgium in State Feminism and Political Representation, ed. by Joni Lovenduski, Petra Meier, Diane Sainbury, Marila Guadagnini and Claudie Baudino (Cambridge University Press, in press); and wrote Vrouwen vertegenwoordigd, Wetstraat gekraakt ? Representativiteit feministisch bekeken (VUB Press, 2004) (with Karen Celis). She also published in Party Politics, European Political Science, Acta Politica, Res Publica, Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, Ethiek en Maatschappij and edited volumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delila Amir (Israel)
Delila Amir is a sociologist at the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University. She received her PhD from Pittsburgh University, U.S.A. Her publications include: The Politics of Abortion (Tel Aviv University, 1989); \u2018Defining Encounters: who are the women entitled to join the Israeli Collective\u2019, in Women\u2019s Studies International Forum (1997); Abortion in Israel, from an International and a Feminist Perspective (Hakibutz Hameuhad Publishers, forthcoming). She conducted RNGS research on prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marina Calloni (Italy)
Marina Calloni is full professor (professore ordinario per chiamata diretta) of social and political philosophy at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She is director of the \u201cInternational Network for Research in Gender\u201d. After a \u201claurea\u201d in Philosophy at the University of Milan, she received a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Pavia, and a Ph.D. in Social and Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence. She was a research fellow at the University of Frankfurt and senior researcher at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, where she initiated the \u00abEuropean Network\u00bb. She was visiting professor at the Universities of Bremen (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Lugano (Switzerland), Hannover (Germany), Tirana (Albania), Beijing (China) and Kurume (Japan). She is co-founder of the School ofPolitics \u201cAleksandra Kollontai\u201d based at the Pomor University in Arkhangelsk (in the Barents Region of North-West Russia). She was project manager of a programme devoted to the establishment of a Gender Institute at the University of Tirana, supported by the United Nations and the Italian Foreign Ministry. She was member of the Enwise Expert Group, supported by the DG \u201cResearch\u201d Unit \u201cWomen and Science\u201d of the European Commission, in order to report on the situation of women scientists in the Eastern and Central European countries and the Baltic States\u201d.
Her main topics concerns: social and political philosophy; philosophy of social sciences; gender issues; theories of ethics, politics and justice; Democracy, cultural conflicts and the critique of violence; science and society; European citizenship and the public sphere; international research networks and co-operation.
She has participated in several international researches and cross borders networks, collaborating with universities, research centres, NGO\u2019s and supra-national institutions.
She has widely published books and papers in several languages and countries. Among her last books: I dilemmi dell\u2019aborto. Il bene, il giusto e le differenze, Roma: Donzelli, in print; Amelia Rosselli, Memorie, ed. M.Calloni, il Mulino, Bologna, 2001; M.Calloni, A.Ferrara, S.Petrucciani (eds.), Pensare la societ\u00e0. L\u2019idea di una filosofia sociale, Roma: Carocci, 2001; M.Calloni, B.Dausien & M. Friese (eds.), Migrationsgeschichten von Frauen. Beitr\u00e4ge und Perspektiven aus der Biographieforschung, Bremen: IBL -Universit\u00e4t Bremen Verlag, 2000. She conducted the RNGS research on abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie Verlin Laatikainen (EU)
Katie Verlin Laatikainenis Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Adelphi University. Her research interests include international organization,European integration, and the politics of gender, and her area of expertise is Nordic Europe. Her most recent publication on these issues is \u201cEquality and Swedish Social Democracy: The Impact of Globalization and Europeanization\u201d in Robert J. Geyer, Christine Ingebritsen, and Jonathan Moses (eds) Globalization, Europeanization and the End of Scandinavian Social Democracy, London: Macmillan, 2000. She conducted the RNGS research on job training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joan Grace (Canada)
Joan Grace received herPh.D. in comparative public policy at McMaster University. She is currently in the Department of Politics at the University of Winnipeg. Her dissertation examines how feminist policy aspirations in the sectors of child care and unemployment insurance, are translated through the policy process. Her study compares Canada with Ireland. Her most recent publications include: \u201cSending Mixed Messages: Gender-based Analysis and the \u2018Status of Women\u2019, Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 40, No. 4, Winter 1997. She conducted the research for RNGS on job training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Good (Ireland)
Anne Good works for NDA Research and Standards Development, specializing in issues for the disabled. She was formerly a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Course Director of the Department\u2019s Masters\u2019 program in Applied Social Research at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Formerly she worked in various positions in the women\u2019s movement and in women\u2019s policy offices including, researcher and journalist at the Centre for Research on European Women (CREW) Brussels, coordinator of the European Network of Women (1982-85); Director of the Irish Council for the Status of Women (1985-88) and board member of the Irish Employment Equality Agency (1987-92). She has recently completed a PhD thesis entitled EuropeanUnionSupraState Feminism: Redistributional Gender Equality Policy and Training in Europe and Ireland, 1971-97 at Trinity College. Her publications include: \u201cListening to my Grandmother: (re)connecting feminism and nationalism through intellectual autobiography\u201d Auto\/biography. Vol. VI, 1 & 2 (39-44) 1998; \u201cGender Equality in European Training Policy, 1971-97\u201dAdministration, Vol.46, 3, 3 (19-36), Autumn.1998. She conducted the research on job training with Kathy Teghtsoonian for RNGS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yvonne Svanstr\u00f6m (Sweden)
Yvonne Svanstr\u00f6m is an assistant professor at the Department for Economic History, University of Stockholm, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Economic History. Title of her dissertation is Policing Public Women. The Regulation of Prostitution in Stockholm 1812-1880 (Arena\/Akademi, 2000). Recent publications in English include \u2018The Main Source of Syphilis is Prostitution\u2019. Fallen Women and Prostitutes in Medical Discourse 1812-1875. The Case of Stockholm\u2019, in: Sex, State and Society. Comparative Perspectives on the History of Sexuality, ed. by Lars-G\u00f6ran Tedebrandt (Almqvist&Wiksell International, 2000). She conducted the research for RNGS on prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen Celis (Belgium)
Karen Celis (Belgium) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Administration and Public Management of the Hogeschool Gent since 2004. She studied Contemporary History at the Catholic University of Louvain before specialising in Women\u2019s Studies at the University of Antwerp. Her PhD in Political Science was on the political representation of women in de Belgian Lower house. She has published on the political representation of women, abortion, gender and socialism, and women and war. Her most recent publications in English include: with Alison Woodward (2003) Flanders: Do It Yourself and Do It Better? Regional Parliaments as Sites for Democratic Renewal and Gendered Representation. In: J. Magone (red.) Regional Institutions and Governance in the European Union. Subnational Actors in the New Millenium. Westport \u2013 Connecticut \u2013 Londen: Praeger, 173-191; (2001) The abortion debates in Belgium (1974-1990). In: D. Stetson (red.) Abortion Politics, Women\u2019s Movements and the Democratic State. A comparative Study of State Feminism. New-York: Oxford University Press, 39-61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brigitte Geissel (Germany)
Brigitte Geissel has a Ph.D. in political science, she works at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin (WZB). she has published on women in parties and parliaments in Germany, especially on the local level; her research interest is participation in developed democracies. The most recent book is: \u201cPolitikerinnen. Politisierung und Partizipation auf lokaler Ebene. Leske und Budrich 1999\u201d. Her current projects include \u201cgender, sustainability and participation\u201d and \u201cparticipatory governance in a multi-level context\u201d. She conducted the RNGS research on political representation with Lynn Kamenitsa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniela Danna (Italy)
Daniela Danna has a PhD in Sociology and Social research at the University of Trento, Italy. Title of her dissertation was Policies about prostitution in the European Union in the Nineties (2000). She has worked as a journalist and has published Amiche, compagne, amanti. Storia dell\u2019amore tra donne (Mondadori, 1994); Matrimonio omosessuale (Erre Emme Edizioni, 1997), and edited \u201cIo ho una bella figlia\u2026 Le madrilesbiche raccontano\u201d (Zoe, 1998). She conducted the RNGS research on prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leslie Ann Jeffrey (Canada)
Leslie Ann Jeffrey is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. She received her PhD from York University, Toronto, in political science. Recent publications include her book on prostitution policy in Thailand, Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press (2002), and \u2018\u2019Because They Want Nice Things\u2019: Prostitution, Consumerism and Culture in Thailand\u2019, in Atlantis: A Women\u2019s Studies Journal 26, 2 (Spring 2002). She conducted the RNGS research on prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christina Bergqvist (Sweden)
Christina Bergqvist is associate professor of political science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University since 2002. She received her PhD in 1994 on women\u2019s representation in Swedish political institutions and the corporatist sector. Her research fields include gender and political representation, gender and public policy, feminist comparative policy. Recent publications in English include: \u2018Gender (In)Equality, European Integration and the Transition of Swedish Corporatism\u2019, Economic and Industrial Democracy, (2004), 25, (1) :125-146; \u2018Alive and Fairly Well: Welfare State Restructuring and Child Care in Sweden\u2019 (with Anita Nyberg), in Child Care at the Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring, ed. by Rianne Mahon and Sonya Michel (Routledge, 2002); \u2018Adaptation or Diffusion of the Swedish Gender Model?\u2019 (with Ann-Cathrine Jungar), in Gendered Policies in Europe: Reconciling Employment and Family Life, ed. by Linda Hantrais (Macmillan, 2000). She was the editor in chief of Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries (Oslo University Press 1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judith Squires (UK)
Judith Squires is a senior lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol ; she has a PhD from the University of London . Her publications include \u2018Women in Parliament: a Comparative Analysis\u2019 (Equal Opportunities Commission, 2001 co-authored), Gender in Political Theory (Polity, 1999), and Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 1997, co-edited). She is convenor of the European Consortium of Political Research Standing Group on Women and Politics. She conducted the RNGS research on prostitution with Johann Kantola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johanna Kantola (UK)
Johanna Kantola obtained her PhD from the University of Bristol, where she is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher. She has published articles about gender and the state in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, European Journal of Women\u2019s Studies and European Political Science andcontributed chapters to various edited volumes. These include chapters on Britain and Finland in two volumes coming out of the work of the Research Network on Gender, Governance and the State (RNGS) in The Politics of Prostitution. Women\u2019s Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce, ed. by Joyce Outshoorn (Cambridge University Press, 2004); State Feminism and Political Representation, ed. by Joni Lovenduski, Petra Meier, Diane Sainsbury, Marila Guadagnini and Claudie Baudino (Cambridge University Press, in press). She has also published The Mute, the Deaf and the Lost: Gender Equality at the University of Helsinki Political Science Department (University of Helsinki Press, 2005). Her monograph titled Feminists Theorize the State (Palgrave Macmillan) is forthcoming in 2006. She is the co-editor of the Finnish Women\u2019s Studies Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Misako Iwamoto (Japan)
Misako Iwamotois Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Mie University in Tsu (Japan). She has a Master of Law from Nagoyo University. Her recent publications include: \u2018Women and Political Process\u2019, in: Political Science of New Politic\u201d, Kaku, Kensuke\/Maruyama, Hitoshi (eds.), Kyoto: Mineruva Shobo, 2000. \u2018The Madonna Boom: The Progress of Japanese Women into Politics in the 1980s\u2019, in: PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 34\/2001, no. 2. \u2018Women\u2019s Advancement in the United Local Elections in 1999\u2019, in: Seisaku Kagaku, vol. 8\/2001, no. 3. \u2018Political Process without Women\u2019, in: Joseigaku (Women\u2019s Study) vol. 5\/1997. She conducted the RNGS research on the hot issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathrin Braun (Germany)
Kathrin Braunstudied social sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg\/ Germany. She is currently a German DAAD visiting professor at the University of Washington. From 1987 \u2013 1999 she was assistant professor at the Institute for Political Science, University of Hannover\/Germany, where she did her PhD in 1993 on state, gender, and class in legislature on working hours in 19 th century in Germany and her Habilitation in 1999 on Human dignity and biomedicine. From September 1999 \u2013 August 2000 she taught Political Theory at the Institute for Political Science at the University of G\u00f6ttingen\/Germany. Since August 2000 she was Associate Professor and since July 2002 Professor for Political Science at the University of Hannover.
She was an expert member of the Parliamentary Study Commission on Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine of the German Bundestag. Her teaching and research interests are political theory, with a focus on democracy, human rights and biopolitics, gender studies and public policies of biomedicine. Recent publications include: Menschenw\u00fcrde und Biomedizin. Zum philosophischen Diskurs der Bioethik. Frankfurt\/New York 2000; co-edited with mit Gesine Fuchs\/Christiane Lemke\/Katrin T\u00f6ns: Feministische Perspektiven der Politikwissenschaft, M\u00fcnchen\/Wien 2000, Grenzen des Diskurses. Biomedizin, Bioethik und demokratischer Diskurs, in: Gabriele Abels\/Daniel Barben (Hg.): Biotechnologie \u2013 Globalisierung \u2013 Demokratie. Politi\u00adsche Gestaltung transnationaler Technologieentwicklung. Berlin 2000; \u201eLife\u201c is a battle field. Aspekte der Bio-Macht. Hannover 1999. She conducted her RNGS research on the hot issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terhi Aalto (Finland)
Terhi Aalto works as Information Officer at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Finland. She has a Master\u2019s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki with political science as her major subject. She wrote her Master\u2019s thesis on the Finnish women\u2019s movement impact on children\u2019s day care and home care allowance policies in Finland. She conducted the RNGS research on the hot issue with Anne Maria Holli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Candice D. Ortbals (Spain)
Candice D. Ortbals studied political science at Indiana University, where she received her PhD for her dissertation Embedded Institutions, Activisms, and Discourses: Untangling the Intersections of Women\u2019s Civil Society and Women\u2019s Policy Agencies in Spain. Currently she is an assistant professor at Pepperdine University and has a grant from the Ministry of Education in Spain to conduct research on women\u2019s policy agencies in the Canary Islands. The Canary Islands research will complete her investigation into regional women\u2019s policy agencies in Spain, to be published under the title Mapping-Sub-national Politics and Feminisms in Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consultants<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

S. Laurel Weldon
Purdue University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James A. Caporaso
University of Washington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashley Grosse
Washington State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacqui True
University of Auckland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Mintrom
University of Auckland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Appleton
Washington State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hashem Aghabeigpoori
Shiraz University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie Ajinkya
Cornell University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elvita Alvarez
Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charity Angya
Benue State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Annesley
University of Manchester<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olga Avdeyeva
Loyola University Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Balbo
Ferrara University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa Baldez
Dartmouth College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie Ballington
Inter-Parliamentary Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanh-Huyen Ballmer-Cao
Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee Ann Banaszak
The Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nimat Hafez Barazangi
Cornell University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amrita Basu
Amherst College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen Beckwith
Case Western Reserve University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ingrid Bego
Washington State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laure Bereni
New York University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen Bird
McMaster University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merike Blofield
Universityof Miami<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anette Borchorst
Aalborg University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ionna Borza
Bucharest, Romania<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice Brown
Edinburgh University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birgit Buchinger
Solution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Bustelo
Universidad Complutense de Madrid<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wha-soon Byun
Korean Women\u2019s Development Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy Caiazza
Institute for Women\u2019s Policy Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gemma Carney
Trinity College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louise Chappell
The University of Sydney<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel A. Cichowski
University of Washington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Collier
University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drude Dahlerup
Stockholm University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandrine Dauphin
Paris, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donatella DellaPorta
European University Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dieter Dettke
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christine DiStefano
University of Washington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Docksey
Legal Service of the European Commission<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alessia Don\u00e0
University of Trento<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caroline Eckert
European Science Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kristin Edquist
Eastern Washington University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maud Eduards
Stockholm University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R. Amy Elman
Kalamazoo College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabelle Engeli
University of Ottawa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margit Kellenbenz Epstein
Oldenburg, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josefina Erikson
University of Stockholm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Katalin Fabian
Lafayette College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myra Marx Ferree
University of Wisconsin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natalie Florea
University of Connecticut<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maxime Forest
IEP de Paris \u2013 CERI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lenita Freidenvall
Stockholm University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicole Freiner
Charles F. Kettering Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

G<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yvonne Galligan
Queens University Belfast<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fran\u00e7oise Gaspard
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Gault
Institute for Women\u2019s Policy Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marco Giugni
Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gary Goertz
University of Arizona<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda Gouws
University of Stellenbosch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbert Gottweis
University of Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Liesl Haas
California State University, Long Beach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kristin Haffert
National Democratic Institute (NDI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carol Hagemann-White
University of Osnabrueck<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cynthia Harrison
The George Washington University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heidi Hartmann
Institute for Women\u2019s Policy Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Season Hoard
Washington State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara M. Hobson
Stockholm University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Hoskyns
Coventry University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mala Htun
New School University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evelyne Huber
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agnes Hubert
European Commission<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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J<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johanna J\u00e4\u00e4saari
YLE \u2013 Finnish Broadcasting Co.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vlasta Jalusic
Mirovni institut\/Peace Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n

K<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John T.S. Keeler
University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vesna Kesic
Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gary King
Harvard University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elena V. Kochkina
Open Society Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornelia Klinger
Institute for Human Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva Kreisky
Universitaet Wien<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mona Lena Krook
Washington University in St. Louis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annica Kronsell
Lund University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mara Kuhl
Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaana Kuusipalo
University of Tampere<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sabine Lang
University of Washington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacqueline Laufer
Groupe HEC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilse Lenz
Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Lindvert
G\u00f6teborg University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wannapa Leerasiri
Chiang Mai University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christiane Lemke
Universitaet Hannover<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beate Leopold
Universit\u00e4t Osnabr\u00fcck<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El\u00e9onore Lepinard
University of Montreal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ulrike Liebert
Universit\u00e4t Bremen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martine Lurol
La HALDE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiona Macaulay
University of Bradford<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas McAdam
Stanford University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiona McKay
University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maro Pantelidou Maloutas
University of Athens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B\u00e9reng\u00e8re Marques-Pereira
Universit\u00e9 Libre Bruxelles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patricia Yancey Martin
Florida State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy Martinek
National Science Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard E. Matland
Loyola University Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sonia Mazey
Oxford University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diana J. Mendoza
Ateneo de Manila University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ala Mindicanu
Moldova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa Linda T. Miranda
Los Angeles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cas Mudde
University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainbow Murray
Queen Mary University of London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medha Nanivadekar
Shivaji University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claudia Neusuess
Political Consultant and Project Developer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pippa Norris
Harvard University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leslye Obiora
University of Arizona<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celine Okoro
Nigeria Center for Organisational Development<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katherine A. R. Opello
The City University of New York\u2014Kingsborough Community College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann Shola Orloff
Northwestern University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Candice D. Ortbals
Pepperdine University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masako Ota
RCE Kitakyushu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yota Papageorgiou
University of Crete<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorena Parini
Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pamela Paxton
The Ohio State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ito Peng
University of Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V\u00e2nia Carvalho Pinto
University of Hildesheim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jocelyne Praud
University of Regina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenny Pribble
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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R<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Ragin
University of Arizona<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shirin Rai
The University of Warwick<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pam Rajput
Women\u2019s Resource and Advocacy Centre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petra Rakusanova
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vicky Randall
Essex University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pauline Rankin
Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandra Reineke
University of Idaho<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Revillard
Universit\u00e9 de Paris 13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meg Rincker
Purdue University Calumet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Rochon
Graduate Record Examinations Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connie Roggeband
Radboud University Nijmegen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Ross
Washington State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silke Roth
University of Southampton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St\u00e9phanie Rousseau
Universit\u00e9 Laval<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teresa Sacchet
London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andreas Schedler
FLACSO Facultad Latinoamericana Ciencias Sociales<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girija Sankaranarayanan
Emory University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cholthira Satyawadhna
Bangkok<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marian Sawer
Australian National University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verena Schmidt
ILO\/ACTRAV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stefanie Sifft
Universit\u00e4t Bremen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariette Sineau
CNRS-CEVIPOF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ailbhe Smyth
University College Dublin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suzanne Soule
Center for Civic Education<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dag Stenvoll
The Rokkan Centre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John D. Stephens
University of North Carolina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Stratigaki
Panteion University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henk Stronkhorst
European Science Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Suskin
NSF Europe Office<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evelin Tamm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiromi Tanaka
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monica Threlfall
Loughborough University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Constanza Tobio
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aili Tripp
University of Wisconsin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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V<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mieke Verloo
Radboud University Nijmegen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angelika von Wahl
San Francisco State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claudius Wagemann
European University Institute\/SPS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elin Wihlborg
Link\u00f6ping University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgina Waylen
The University of Sheffield<\/p>\n\n\n\n

X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shang-Luan Yan
Taipei City Government<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Z<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natalia Zakharova
Gender Analysis Section\/Division of the Advancement of Women, DESA, United Nations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violetta Zentai
Central European University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naihua Zhang
Florida Atlantic University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The RNGS group is comprised of conveners, active research members, directors, and associates. Five conveners coordinate RNGS activities. Research members have conducted the research using the RNGS project design and published on at least one issue area for one country (go to list of RNGS publications). Directors coordinate the five issue networks; country team directors coordinate research on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36757,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/44"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/rngs-wds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}