Making the law work for women: Standard-setting through a new Gender Legislative Index

Making Space for Women: Explaining Citizen Support for Legislative Gender Quotas in Latin America

Gender quotas have been adopted in over a hundred countries in an effort to address gender disparities in national legislatures. Yet the determinants of citizen support for gender quota policies remain largely understudied. We develop a theory that emphasizes the impact of institutional performance and political values to explain citizen support for gender quotas and how these two factors diffe...

Setting a new standard for kinetochores

Setting a new standard for kinetochores T o really understand how a biological structure works, we need to know not just which, but also how many, molecules are present in it. For kine-tochores—the structures that link centro-meric DNA to spindle microtubules— protein components have been tallied by comparing the fluorescence of GFP-tagged kinetochore proteins to fl uorescent versions of the ce...

ترجمه،نقدوبررسی بخش پایانی کتاب : women family and gender in islamic law

موضوع این تحقیق ترجمه ، نقدوبررسی بخش پایانی کتابی است بانام "women, family and gender in islamic law" [زنان، خانواده وجنسیت درحقوق اسلام]. اصل کتاب به زبان انگلیسی است؛ ما علاوه برترجمه، برآن حاشیه نیززده ایم. ونهایتا نقدوبررسی نیز کرده ایم. درفصل نقدوبررسی پس ازایرادمقدمه، نخستین سخن را به بحثی به نام "تنازع پیش فرض ها" اختصاص دادیم. جان سخن ما دراین بحث این است که ازآنجاکه مسلمانان باغیرمسل...

Making Space for Women: Explaining Citizen Support for Legislative Gender Quotas in Latin America1 Forthcoming at Journal of Politics

150 words) Gender quotas have been adopted in over a hundred countries in an effort to address gender disparities in national legislatures. Yet, the determinants of citizen support for gender quota policies remain largely understudied. We develop a theory that emphasizes the impact of institutional performance and political values to explain citizen support for gender quotas and how these two f...

Rethinking legislative consent law?