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Scholarship indicates that women and gender are underrepresented in Political Science textbooks, particularly those in American Politics. We complement those analyses by focusing on the “companion ...

To honor the 25th anniversary of the conference that ultimately produced Gendered States, a group of feminist International Relations (IR) scholars convened a workshop in Melbourne, Australia, and ...

In the winter of 2009 a collection of feminist scholars, PhD candidates, and constitutional lawyers from around the world held a conference at Queens College in Ontario, Canada to share ideas about...

Feminism has not been a broad-based movement in Russia, despite the efforts of many dedicated individuals. After leaving behind communism, which forced a warped Marxist version on society (requirin...

Given the title of this book, some might think its relevance depends on whether Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States. The authors, however, emphasize that they are evaluating a...

The transformation of industrial enterprises from formerly state-owned entities, operating within a centrally managed economic system, to relatively autonomous, market-oriented firms, making independent production and investment decisions, represents a cornerstone of Russia's transition plan. Indeed, such a transformation underlay the Chubais privatization program, as proponents of the plan argued that private ownership of industrial enterprises would ensure needed organizational and technological restructuring. The results of the first stage of the privatization program suggested, however, that the transformation of industrial enterprises-far from being assured by a change in ownership-would be a more difficult, lengthy, and uncertain process than had initially been anticipated. This re-evaluation is linked to three broad trends. First, the inconsistent and unstable macroeconomic policies in the early transitional period helped to create an environment in which short-term survival (without a significant adjustment in how industry operates) became the sole objective of firms. Second

In December 1993, observers of Russian politics were surprised that Vladimir Zhirinovskii and his party performed so well in the parliamentary elections and that the reformers did not attract more voters. Two explanations for this outcome have become widely accepted. The first maintains that Russians were expressing their discontent with economic hardships, while the second contends that the balance of political forces accounts for the reformists’ defeat. To the contrary, it appears that it was not the unwillingness of Russians to participate in market reforms and to accept key aspects of the government's programmes, nor was it the combination of the division of the democrats, the invisibility of Yeltsin and the unity of the right wing that produced the unexpected results. Rather, the arrogance of the reformers and the alienation of the Russian public explain the election outcome. These two factors explain why the democrats split as they did and why the type of campaigns waged had such an impact on the fo...