The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research announces the next regular seminar, which will be held in Moscow (Milyutinskiy pereulok, 13, room 406) on September 25 at 6 p.m. Prof. Dr. Amy C. Alexander (Maria Goeppert Mayer Chair of Politics and Gender, Georg-August University Goettingen Germany) will deliver a report “Gender Equality and Good Governance: A Framework for Analysis”. The discussant is Natalia Soboleva (LCSR, Research fellow).

This research will add to a growing literature on gender equality and good governance. This literature has established various links between separate aspects of gender equality and good governance, including the provision of public goods such as democratic accountability (Coleman 2004; Fish 2002; Goetz 2009; Norris and Inglehart 2003; Inglehart and Welzel 2005; Welzel and Alexander 2014; Welzel 2013), intra and interstate peace (Hudson, Ballif-Spanvill, Caprioli and Emmett 2012), economic growth (Blackden, Canagarajah, Klasen and Lawson 2007; Coleman 2004; Duflo 2012; Kabeer and Natali 2013; Klasen 2002; Seguino 2000; World Bank 2011), rule of law (Branisa, Klasen and Ziegler 2013; Welzel and Alexander 2014) and low corruption (Goetz 2007, Branisa, Klasen and Ziegler 2013). However, while the literature on disparate aspects of the gender-governance nexus continues to grow, three critical gaps remain. 1) There is no integrated approach that takes a comprehensive look at how the various aspects play together to create global gender-governance patterns. 2) The field is weak on theory and analysis for sorting out causal directionality. 3) There is too little theory and analysis of mechanisms behind the gender-governance nexus.

 Everyone interested is invited!

Working language is English.

Videoconference with St. Petersburg office of the LCSR (room 301, 47, Rimskogo-Korsakova prospect) will be provided. Also after the seminar a videotape will be put up after the summary of the presentation.

Guests from outside the HSE are invited to make a request for a pass to the building in Moscow to Anastasia Maksimova (amaksimova@hse.ru) by 11 am of the seminar's day. Guests from St. Petersburg are free to enter the building.