We are pleased to announce the launch of the PoWER website:  http://genderpower.net/main/

Political Women and Executive Representation (PoWER) is an international research group dedicated to understanding patterns of women’s representation in the executive branch. Our main goal is to explain when, why, and how women are recruited to political executives in parliamentary and presidential democracies. This research is timely
because of increased societal expectations that women be represented in core political institutions and concerns about the concentration of power in the office of the chief executive. Our research aims to uncover the role of institutions, norms, and practices that either facilitate or obstruct women’s representation in the executive branch of
Government.

A workshop on Gender, Power, and Representation in the Executive Branch will be part of the ECPR Joint Sessions, April 10–15, 2014 at the University of Salamanca

Susan Franceschet, Claire Annesley, Karen Beckwith and Isabelle Engeli