Mazur, Amy G., Hoard, Season. (2014) Gendering Comparative Policy Studies: Towards Better Science. In Engeli I., Allison C.R. (eds) Comparative Policy Studies. Research Methods Series (REMES). Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Feminist policy scholars in Western Europe first acknowledged the empirical gaps and gender biases in theory and methodology used in the study of the state and policy in the early 1980s. By the early 1990s, researchers in North America and Australia joined their Western European counterparts in the new feminist academic enterprise that sought to systematically study the interconnections between the social construction of men’s and women’s identities, policy and the state; in other words to ‘gender’ the study of state action. In the mid 1990s, a loose methodological consensus developed within this transnational community around conventions for conducting research, developing theory and reporting findings; a consensus, which moved the new field, Feminist Comparative Policy (FCP), into a stage of vitality and institutionalization. In 2012, with over 400 published pieces, an estimated 20 million euros in research funding, over 100 active researchers and four journals that serve as publication outlets — Social Politics, International Journal of Feminist Politics, Politics and Gender and Women, Politics and Policy — FCP holds an important place in comparative policy studies and political science more broadly speaking.

Keywords:
Welfare State Gender Equality Qualitative Comparative Analysis Feminist Policy Social Politics

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