Amy Alexander

Alexander's research focuses on the role gender equality plays in democracies’ achievements in various aspects of quality of government.  In particular, she evaluates global variation in historical patterns of gender equality, such as early household formation patterns to establish whether countries' achievements in quality of government today can be rooted in these early patterns of equality; whether the political empowerment of women improves quality of government and through which mechanisms the influence operates; and the variation in democracies’ efforts to develop institutions, rights and policies that empower gender diversity. Alexander also studies sources of women's political empowerment and how this empowerment affects political representation, social values, and democratization across the globe.