Innovating Gender and Politics: Methodological Frontiers in Research

Abstract

This panel brings together cutting-edge methodological innovations that push the boundaries of how gender and politics can be empirically studied. Each contribution challenges long-standing assumptions—whether conceptual, epistemological, or methodological—and demonstrates how creative research design can capture dimensions of gendered political life overlooked by conventional approaches. Spanning continuous gender measurement, feminist ethnography, network-based experiments, digital intersectional mapping, and large-scale analyses of survey non-response, the papers collectively illustrate how methodological reinvention reshapes the substantive questions we can ask—and the answers we can meaningfully defend.

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Continuous Gender Identity Predicts Right-Wing Ideology Across 20 Countries	View Paper Details
From Occident to Orient: Architecture as a Spatial Form of Gender-Entangled Power Regime	View Paper Details
Mapping Intersectionality: Feminist Innovations in Empirical Research Design	View Paper Details
Inquiring one’s own epistemic practices: What we learn when we direct our gaze towards care during ethnography	View Paper Details
Social Incentives and Women’s Public Participation in Rural India	View Paper Details
Riding the Second Wave: Can Radical Movements Increase Descriptive Representation?	View Paper Details