Working to engage, support, and promote women who study legislative politics related to Congress, state, comparative, and international legislatures.
http://www.womeninlegislativestudies.org/
Women in Legislative Studies
The Rothermere American Institute at Oxford is recruiting for the Churchill Associate Professor of United States Politics, looking especially for a colleague with expertise in American political development. The application deadline is May 6. See the job listing here:
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
The Women, Gender, and Politics section is pleased to offer travel grants to the 2026 APSA conference for graduate students.
You must be a section member to be eligible.
Info on travel grants: connect.apsanet.org/apsa2026/tra...
Apply here by May 29: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2026 WiLS Conference! Details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The deadline is approaching to send in your proposal for the 2026 WiLS conference. Please fill out the form by March 31 even if you plan to attend as a discussant/chair/participant. Hope to see in in Virginia in October!
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In her new book, Politics by Formula, @leahrosenstiel.bsky.social examines how politics shapes and often distorts important federal programs, driving inequalities across states.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Why are legislatures in some authoritarian regimes more powerful than others? @emisimison.bsky.social (@qmulsse.bsky.social) & Alejandro Bonvecchi (UTDT-Conicet) tackle this question Lawmaking under Authoritarianism. Factions, Institutions, and Outcomes Across Dictatorships
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Hybrid Workshop: Parliaments in the Global South: Challenges and Transformations
Oct 6-7, 2026 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City
Submit your abstract here by July 31:
forms.gle/VTVu9BSvr2WH...
What explains differences in policymaking processes and outcomes across authoritarian regimes even when they share regime type, policy challenges and goals?
@emisimison.bsky.social (@qmulsse.bsky.social) proposes a novel framework in @govjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/gove...
Our monthly professional development seminar will be held on Friday, March 20, 2:00pm ET. The session is titled "Caregiving in the Academy." We are cosponsoring this event with two other excellent APSA committees.
Learn more and register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
When: Saturday, October 10-Sunday, October 11, 2026
Where: Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia (near Richmond)
Participants should plan to arrive on Friday, October 9. Panels will be held all da...
When: Saturday, October 10-Sunday, October 11, 2026
Where: Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia (near Richmond)
Participants should plan to arrive on Friday, October 9. Panels will be held all da...
docs.google.com
A clear-eyed study that reveals how politics shapes and often distorts important federal programs, driving inequalities across states. From Medicaid to Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, a large perce...
This hybrid workshop, organized by the Research Committee of Legislative Specialists (RCLS/RC08) of the International Political Science Association with the support of UNAM and held in Mexico City, br...
Public policies are expected to vary across regime types, but this association remains inconclusive even when further differentiating within types of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on the theoretica...
According to the AARP, about 48 million Americans, mostly women, provide unpaid caregiving. It may be to an aging parent, who may or may not be in the same country, children, a child or adult child wi...
