Research
My research focuses on parliamentary processes and their tangible effects on real-life citizens. Specifically, I am interested in how gendered institutional rules and norms produce gendered outcomes.
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Opportunities and Influence: Women’s Representation and Advocacy in the Canadian Parliament - with Erica Rayment (UCalgary)
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Published in the European Journal of Politics and Gender, this article leverages lobbying data in Canada and finds that women’s group advocates understand changing institutional contexts and strategize accordingly.
Recent Research
Partisanship, Independence, and the Constitutive Representation of Women in the Canadian Senate
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Published in Politics & Gender, my article shows that senators’ sex drives their representation of women - women are more likely to talk about women’s interests. I also find that ideology, more than party discipline, affects senators quality of speech about women.
From Private Influence to Public Amendment: The Senate’s Amendment Rate in the 41st, 42nd, and 43rd Canadian Parliaments
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Published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, my article finds that the recent Senate reforms have made senators’ oversight of government legislation more transparent.