Social role theory provides a framework to help understand the complexity of gender in the
political sphere. We demonstrate how SRT both helps to explain extant research findings …

Gender scholars show that women in situations of civil war have an impressive record of
agency in the social and political spheres. Civilian women's political mobilization during …

This article examines the effect rebel women have on the shape of civil war peace
agreements, paying particular attention to the specific gender-inclusive provisions female …

The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and
measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on …

Although a substantial body of research argues that women provide terrorist organizations
with important tactical benefits, few studies draw out the implications of this argument or …

Despite vast research on women's descriptive representation, little is known about its
influence on women's political engagement in East and Southeast Asia where gender norms …

This article aims to demonstrate that during an economic crisis political protest increases.
Recently, economic performance has suddenly worsened in Europe after a period of relative …

Do international human rights treaties constrain governments from repressing their
populations and violating rights? In Contentious Compliance, Courtenay R. Conrad and …

The relationship between Black Lives Matter (BLM) and anti-police brutality movements
abroad reveals the variety of ways in which Black feminist theories of justice have taken root …

How does the public respond to nonviolent resistance tactics? This survey experiment
examines both approval and perceptions of legitimacy for five nonviolent tactics using a …