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Amy C. Alexander
Researcher at University of Gothenburg
Publications - 44
Citations - 1126
Amy C. Alexander is an academic researcher from University of Gothenburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Empowerment & Politics. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 41 publications receiving 952 citations. Previous affiliations of Amy C. Alexander include University of California, Irvine & Center for the Study of Democracy.
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Gender Equality in Academia: Bad News from the Trenches, and Some Possible Solutions
TL;DR: For instance, this paper conducted interviews with 80 female faculty at a large Research One university and found that both individual and institutional discrimination persists, and that women find legal mechanisms and direct political action of limited utility, and increasingly turn to more subtle forms of incremental collective action.
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Islam and patriarchy: how robust is Muslim support for patriarchal values?
TL;DR: This article found evidence that Muslims support patriarchal values more than non-Muslims, but the nature of this evidence is still open for debate. But they concluded that "the cultural interpretation suggests that patriarchal values are a...
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Change in Women's Descriptive Representation and the Belief in Women's Ability to Govern: A Virtuous Cycle
TL;DR: For underrepresented groups, increases in their descriptive representation symbolize a more open political arena, which improves the group's political participation as well as beliefs about their role in politics.
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Measuring effective democracy: A defense:
TL;DR: In this article, the effective democracy index (EDI) has scale properties that are fully consistent with the normative premises of the index's construction logic, and it is shown that the EDI deviates from all other indices of democracy in a perfectly intended way that incorporates substantiating qualities of democracy which the other indices neglect.
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Empowering Women: The Role of Emancipative Beliefs
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of subjective beliefs on women's empowerment has been analyzed and it was shown that subjective beliefs do not rival but "mediate" the influence on women empowerment.