Amanda Clayton
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Vice-Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies
I study questions related to gender and political power. Much of my work examines the causes and consequences of women’s political representation, including what increases women’s representation, how electoral gender quotas reshape legislative power, and how citizens respond to increasingly diverse governments. My recent work examines the gender politics of climate mitigation, including a book project on how and when gender becomes entangled in climate politics and what it means for crafting successful climate policy.
About
Research
Much of my research is field-based and comparative, drawing on field and survey experiments, legislative debate records, and focus groups in Malawi, Uganda, Lesotho, Namibia, Kuwait, and the United States, alongside cross-national data covering more than a hundred countries. My current work on gender and climate politics includes a book project on the origins of gender differences in climate attitudes worldwide.
My work has appeared in leading academic journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and International Organization, and has been covered by The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Teen Vogue, among others.
My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, USAID, CGIAR, and EGAP, among others. More on coverage and support.
Co-Director
Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Research Network
I am Co-Director of EGEN. We work to build women’s power in academia and to improve society’s understanding of gender inequality through our teaching, research, policy work, and advocacy.
Contact
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210 Social Sciences Building
Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1950 - Elsewhere
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