Amy C. 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.