Cecilia Josefsson

A million thanks to the award committee, to everyone who shaped this book — in Uruguay and beyond — and to those who keep pushing feminist research forward 💜✊

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Cecilia Josefsson Receives the 2025 Victoria Schuck Award for “Defending the Status Quo: On Adaptive Resistance to Electoral Gender Quotas” - The Victoria Schuck Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book published on women and politics.  Citation from the Award Committee: Cecilia Josefsson’s book, Defending the Status Quo: On [...]

So excited (and honored, humbled, grateful, and honestly still in disbelief) to share that I've received the 2025 Victoria Schuck Award from @apsa.bsky.social for my book Defending the Status Quo: On Adaptive Resistance to Electoral Gender Quotas (OUP).

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Honorable mention for the P&G 2025 Best Article Prize 🏆

In "Backlash after Quotas" Myriam Shiran investigates the conservative moral rhetoric about gender quotas found in sub-Saharan African new coverage.

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Fantastic EGEN workshop at ITAM in CDMX 🇲🇽🌯🌮! Crazy good feedback and discussions. Thanks @egenpolisci.bsky.social and hosts @teele.bsky.social @alucardi1.bsky.social and Juan Pablo Micozzi for putting this together!

Warmly welcome to my book launch today!

Spreading the word via #PoliSky #GenderSky @ecpr.bsky.social @uu-polisci.bsky.social @fiin.bsky.social

Welcome to the launch of my book Defending the Status Quo (OUP 2024)!

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🗓 May 8, 15:00–16:00 CEST
📍 Dept. of Government, Uppsala University (or Zoom!)

Speakers: @jennpiscopo.bsky.social, Drude Dahlerup, @elinbja.bsky.social & me.

Välkommen till panelsamtal om det offentliga samtalet! Meverkar gör Ingrid Carlberg, journalist, författare, ledamot i Svenska Akademien och Malin Holm, forskare vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen. Alla är välkomna!

🗓️2 april kl 13-14
📍Plan 7, Östra Ågatan 19

Tack!

Two books in front of a Christmas tree, one blue cover by Cecilia Josefsson called defending the status quo, one pink cover by Elise Stephenson called the face of the nation

Finally got my hands on the first two books in our OUP Studies in Feminist Institutionalism Series - congrats Elise Stephenson & @ceciliajosefsson.bsky.social! Perfect holiday gifts for family & friends! @fiin.bsky.social

+ All people I cannot find here: Niki Johnson, Amanda Clayton, Drude Dahlerup, Josefina Erikson, Susan Franceschet, Lenita Freidenvall, Alice Kang, Cecilia Rocha, Veronica Perez, Daniel Buquet, and all Uruguayan respondents!

A million thanks to @parzetterberg.bsky.social @elinbja.bsky.social @merylkenny.bsky.social @jennpiscopo.bsky.social @malahtun.bsky.social @fiin.bsky.social @mlkrook.bsky.social @labaldez.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social

For those wishing to explore resistance to gender equitable policies elsewhere, the book offers an analytical framework/ guide of how to study the changing nature of resistance across a policy process. 🧐🤓🕵️‍♀️

Resistance does not diminish; it mainly takes on new forms as open opposition to the reform and women’s political inclusion become attached to blame. 🤦

Tracing the process of a 30-year-long power struggle to adopt a gender quota law in Uruguay 🇺🇾, I show how the male political elite adapt their resistance strategies over time as quota proponents manage to push the proposal through the policy process.

I argue that lack of gender equitable institutional change and failure of gender equality policy, including quota failures, many times is the result of male political elites’ successful resistance ➡️ so do not blame women change agents!!

It deals with resistance to gender equality policy. One of the most popular electoral reforms in recent decades has been electoral gender quotas, which aim to increase the share of women in parliament. 🥳 While over 100 countries have adopted such quotas, they often fail to empower women... 😔

I’m so happy to announce that my book, Defending the Status Quo: On Adaptive Resistance to Gender Quotas, is finally here!

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🎉Politics & Gender has changed its word-limits policy! To promote greater equity in citation practices in the field, reference lists are🌟no longer subject to word limits.🌟The text, tables, figures, and notes should be no longer than 10,000 words. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (QUALREP) We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with experience in qualitative and quantitative research to join the UKRI-funded research project, QUALREP: The Quality of Women’s Political Represe...

JOBS - 2 post-doctoral fellowships on QUALREP project. 3 years with possibility of extension for 2 more years. Apply by 5 January.

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Why not spend “midsummer” 2024 discussing your research with gender and politics scholars in Scandinavia? NoPSA in Bergen. CfP👇🏼👇🏼

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Book cover for Ana Catalano Weeks's "Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy"

📣 New #FirstView Book Review 📚 'Making Gender Salient' by Ana Catalano Weeks. The book asks whether, when and how gender quotas matter for policy making, a work Amanda Clayton sees "becoming a staple among our classic texts on representation"
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🏆The Politics & Gender Best Article Prize now has its own webpage! 🏆Articles are 🌟open-access🌟 here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The 2023 winner is Daniel Agbiboa for his article on women countering insurgency in Nigeria - direct link:
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New (and Open Access!) article in Perspectives on Politics: “A Case for Description”

from Michelle Jurkovitch, Mary Anne Mendoza-Davé, @mkguliford.bsky.social and me!

With a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our workshops, as well!

Medborgarlön - kan det löna sig? Event in Uppsala, Sweden by Statsvetenskapliga föreningen i Uppsala on Monday, November 27 2023

Medborgarlön - kan det löna sig? Missa inte vårt panelsamtal som utforskar och diskuterar denna fråga.

Panelister: Simon Birnbaum, Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl, och Bo Rothstein.

Tid: 27 november kl 16.00-18.00.

Se även vårt FB-event: facebook.com/events/32972...

Screenshot of research article entitled "Made for Men: Political Science Departments in the United States as Gendered Institutions" by Annika Marlen Hinze

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "Made for Men: Political Science Departments in the United States as Gendered Institutions" Annika Hinze surveys female PhD students and faculty in 🇺🇸 poli sci departments about the institutional gender norms they encounter
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New paper out & open access: the link b/w electoral reform, quota adoption & women's activism, w/ a focus on gender quota & gender parity adoption in Chile. Coauthored with Gwynn Thomas, Peter Siavelis & Magda Hinojosa: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

Delighted to be co-directing an @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions on 'Gender, Parenthood and Political Representation'.

Get your papers in by 23rd Nov. More info: ecpr.eu/JointSessions

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Polisky! With @danieladonno.bsky.social @parzetterberg.bsky.social, we are excited to share this new open access article in the American Political Science Review.

Can autocrats burnish a reputation for democracy by advancing women’s rights? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...