Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Clayton, Amanda, Diana O'Brien and Jennifer Piscopo. 2024. "Founding Narratives and Men's Political Ambition: Experimental Evidence from US Civics Lessons "54(1):129-151.
Clayton, Amanda, Diana O'Brien and Jennifer Piscopo. 2023. "Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition." American Political Science Review. 117(4):1465-1485.
Bush, Sarah and Amanda Clayton. 2023. "Facing Change: Gender and Cross-National Responses to Climate Change." American Political Science Review. 117(2):591-608.
Clayton, Amanda, Daniel de Kadt, and Nicolas Dumas. 2023. "Daughters Do Not Affect Political Beliefs in a New Democracy." Journal of Experimental Political Science. 10(1):137-147.
Clayton, Amanda, and Pär Zetterberg. 2021. "Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa's Emerging Party Systems." American Political Science Review. 115(3): 869 - 884.
Clayton, Amanda. 2021. "How Do Electoral Gender Quotas Affect Policy?" Annual Review of Political Science. 24, 235-52.
Anderson-Nilsson, Georgia and Amanda Clayton. 2021. "Gender and Policy Persuasion." Political Science Research and Methods. 9(4), 818-831.
Clayton, Amanda, Amanda Lea Robinson, Martha C. Johnson, and Ragnhild Muriaas. 2020. "(How) Do Voters Discriminate Against Women Candidates? Experimental and Qualitative Evidence From Malawi.” Comparative Political Studies. 53(3-4), 601-630.
Clayton, Amanda, Diana O'Brien, and Jennifer Piscopo. 2019. "All Male Panels? Representation and Democratic Legitimacy." The American Journal of Political Science. 63(1),113-129.
Clayton, Amanda, Cecilia Josefsson, Robert Mattes and Shaheen Mozaffar. 2019. "In Whose Interest? Gender and Mass-Elite Priority Congruence in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Comparative Political Studies. 52(1), 69-101.
Hughes, Melanie, Pamela Paxton, Amanda Clayton, and Pär Zetterberg. 2019. "Global Gender Quota Adoption, Implementation, and Reform." Journal of Comparative Politics. 51(2), 219-238.
Clayton, Amanda. 2018. “Do Electoral Gender Quotas Really Reduce Bias? Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Southern Africa.” The Journal of Experimental Political Science. 5(3), 182-194.
Clayton, Amanda, and Pär Zetterberg. 2018. "Quota Shocks: Electoral Gender Quotas and Government Spending Priorities Worldwide." The Journal of Politics. 80(3), 916 - 932.
Clayton, Amanda and Belinda Tang. 2018. "How Women's Incumbency Affects Future Elections: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Lesotho." World Development. 110, 385-393.
Clayton, Amanda, Cecilia Josefsson and Vibeke Wang. 2017. "Quotas and Women's Substantive Representation: A Content Analysis of Ugandan Plenary Debates.'' Politics & Gender. 13(2), 276-304.
Clayton, Amanda. 2015. "Women's Political Engagement under Quota-Mandated Female Representation: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment." Comparative Political Studies. 48(3), 333-369.
Clayton, Amanda, Cecilia Josefsson and Vibeke Wang. 2014. "Present without Presence? Gender, Quotas, and Debate Recognition in the Ugandan Parliament.'' Representation. 50(3), 379-392.
Clayton, Amanda. 2014. "Electoral Gender Quotas and Attitudes toward Traditional Leaders: A Policy Experiment in Lesotho.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 33(4),1007–1026.
Ahlquist, John S., Amanda B. Clayton and Margaret Levi. 2014. "Provoking Preferences: Unionization, Trade Policy, and the ILWU Puzzle.'' International Organization. 68(1), 33-75.
Book Chapters
Clayton, Amanda and Georgia Anderson-Nilsson. 2021. "Gender Experiments in Comparative Politics." in Advances in Experimental Political Science ed. Donald Green and James Druckman. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Clayton, Amanda. 2021. "Electoral Systems and the Process of Substantive Representation: Lessons from Namibia and Uganda." in Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing in New Democracies ed. Leonardo Arriola, Martha Johnson, and Melanie Phillips. New York: Oxford University Press.
Johnson, Martha, Ragnhild Muriaas, Amanda Clayton, and Amanda Robinson. 2021. "Deeper Decentralization, Fewer Women? Decentralization and Women's Candidacies for Local Office in Benin and Malawi." in Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing in New Democracies ed. Leonardo Arriola, Martha Johnson, and Melanie Phillips. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ahlquist, John S., Margaret Levi and Amanda B. Clayton. 2013. "Political Attitudes and Behavior among ILWU Members.'' Chapter 7 in Ahlquist and Levi, In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Levi, Margaret, Jon Agnone and Amanda Clayton. 2012. "Trade Unions." in The Oxford Companion to American Politics. ed. David Coates. New York: Oxford University Press.
Published Working Papers
Clayton, Amanda. 2016. “Comparative Regional Patterns in Electoral Gender Quota Adoption: A Social Network Approach.” KFG Working Paper Series, No. 71, Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) “The Transformative Power of Europe,“ Freie Universität Berlin.
Clayton, Amanda, Noveck, Jennifer, and Levi, Margaret. 2015. "When Elites Meet : Decentralization, Power-Sharing, and Public Goods Provision in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone." Policy Research Working Paper; no. WPS 7335. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group.
Popular Press and Other Entries
Clayton, Amanda & Pär Zetterberg. 30 May 2018. "Will 2018’s ‘pink wave’ of female candidates make it in Congress? Almost certainly. Here’s how."
The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.
Clayton, Amanda, Diana O'Brien & Jennifer Piscopo. 4 April 2017. "Americans don’t like it when men (and only men) make decisions about women"
The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.
Clayton, Amanda. 11 September 2014. "Corporate Boardrooms: Where are the Women?" post on the Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program blog, The WAPPP Wire.
Ahlquist, John S., Amanda B. Clayton, & Margaret Levi. 28 October 2013. "What are the implications of the AFL-CIO's expanding membership criteria?" post on The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.
Consulting Reports
Clayton, Amanda. 19 September 2014. "Namibia at a Crossroads: 50/50 and the Way Forward." IPPR Democracy Report and Legal Assistance Centre Monograph Series. Windhoek, Namibia.
Clayton, Amanda, Diana O'Brien and Jennifer Piscopo. 2024. "Founding Narratives and Men's Political Ambition: Experimental Evidence from US Civics Lessons "54(1):129-151.
Clayton, Amanda, Diana O'Brien and Jennifer Piscopo. 2023. "Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition." American Political Science Review. 117(4):1465-1485.
- Research covered by the LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog
Bush, Sarah and Amanda Clayton. 2023. "Facing Change: Gender and Cross-National Responses to Climate Change." American Political Science Review. 117(2):591-608.
- Research covered by The Economist
Clayton, Amanda, Daniel de Kadt, and Nicolas Dumas. 2023. "Daughters Do Not Affect Political Beliefs in a New Democracy." Journal of Experimental Political Science. 10(1):137-147.
Clayton, Amanda, and Pär Zetterberg. 2021. "Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa's Emerging Party Systems." American Political Science Review. 115(3): 869 - 884.
Clayton, Amanda. 2021. "How Do Electoral Gender Quotas Affect Policy?" Annual Review of Political Science. 24, 235-52.
Anderson-Nilsson, Georgia and Amanda Clayton. 2021. "Gender and Policy Persuasion." Political Science Research and Methods. 9(4), 818-831.
Clayton, Amanda, Amanda Lea Robinson, Martha C. Johnson, and Ragnhild Muriaas. 2020. "(How) Do Voters Discriminate Against Women Candidates? Experimental and Qualitative Evidence From Malawi.” Comparative Political Studies. 53(3-4), 601-630.
Clayton, Amanda, Diana O'Brien, and Jennifer Piscopo. 2019. "All Male Panels? Representation and Democratic Legitimacy." The American Journal of Political Science. 63(1),113-129.
- Winner of the 2017 MPSA Sophonisba Breckinridge Award for best paper on the topic of women and politics
- Research covered by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, the Monkey Cage, Teen Vogue, and the Pacific Standard.
Clayton, Amanda, Cecilia Josefsson, Robert Mattes and Shaheen Mozaffar. 2019. "In Whose Interest? Gender and Mass-Elite Priority Congruence in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Comparative Political Studies. 52(1), 69-101.
Hughes, Melanie, Pamela Paxton, Amanda Clayton, and Pär Zetterberg. 2019. "Global Gender Quota Adoption, Implementation, and Reform." Journal of Comparative Politics. 51(2), 219-238.
- Article introducing the QAROT data set. When using please cite the dataset as: Hughes, Melanie M., Pamela Paxton, Amanda Clayton, and Pär Zetterberg. 2017. Quota Adoption and Reform over Time (QAROT), 1947-2015. [Computer file]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], http://doi.org/10.3886/E100918V1.
- QAROT dataset winner of the APSA Lijphart/ Przeworski / Verba best dataset prize
Clayton, Amanda. 2018. “Do Electoral Gender Quotas Really Reduce Bias? Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Southern Africa.” The Journal of Experimental Political Science. 5(3), 182-194.
- Research covered by Foreign Policy's The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women Podcast.
Clayton, Amanda, and Pär Zetterberg. 2018. "Quota Shocks: Electoral Gender Quotas and Government Spending Priorities Worldwide." The Journal of Politics. 80(3), 916 - 932.
Clayton, Amanda and Belinda Tang. 2018. "How Women's Incumbency Affects Future Elections: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Lesotho." World Development. 110, 385-393.
Clayton, Amanda, Cecilia Josefsson and Vibeke Wang. 2017. "Quotas and Women's Substantive Representation: A Content Analysis of Ugandan Plenary Debates.'' Politics & Gender. 13(2), 276-304.
Clayton, Amanda. 2015. "Women's Political Engagement under Quota-Mandated Female Representation: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment." Comparative Political Studies. 48(3), 333-369.
Clayton, Amanda, Cecilia Josefsson and Vibeke Wang. 2014. "Present without Presence? Gender, Quotas, and Debate Recognition in the Ugandan Parliament.'' Representation. 50(3), 379-392.
- Reprinted in Gender Quotas and Women’s Representation: New Directions in Research. ed. Mona Lena Krook and Pär Zetterberg. New York, NY: Routledge.
Clayton, Amanda. 2014. "Electoral Gender Quotas and Attitudes toward Traditional Leaders: A Policy Experiment in Lesotho.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 33(4),1007–1026.
- Research covered by Foreign Policy's The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women Podcast.
Ahlquist, John S., Amanda B. Clayton and Margaret Levi. 2014. "Provoking Preferences: Unionization, Trade Policy, and the ILWU Puzzle.'' International Organization. 68(1), 33-75.
Book Chapters
Clayton, Amanda and Georgia Anderson-Nilsson. 2021. "Gender Experiments in Comparative Politics." in Advances in Experimental Political Science ed. Donald Green and James Druckman. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Clayton, Amanda. 2021. "Electoral Systems and the Process of Substantive Representation: Lessons from Namibia and Uganda." in Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing in New Democracies ed. Leonardo Arriola, Martha Johnson, and Melanie Phillips. New York: Oxford University Press.
Johnson, Martha, Ragnhild Muriaas, Amanda Clayton, and Amanda Robinson. 2021. "Deeper Decentralization, Fewer Women? Decentralization and Women's Candidacies for Local Office in Benin and Malawi." in Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing in New Democracies ed. Leonardo Arriola, Martha Johnson, and Melanie Phillips. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ahlquist, John S., Margaret Levi and Amanda B. Clayton. 2013. "Political Attitudes and Behavior among ILWU Members.'' Chapter 7 in Ahlquist and Levi, In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Levi, Margaret, Jon Agnone and Amanda Clayton. 2012. "Trade Unions." in The Oxford Companion to American Politics. ed. David Coates. New York: Oxford University Press.
Published Working Papers
Clayton, Amanda. 2016. “Comparative Regional Patterns in Electoral Gender Quota Adoption: A Social Network Approach.” KFG Working Paper Series, No. 71, Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) “The Transformative Power of Europe,“ Freie Universität Berlin.
Clayton, Amanda, Noveck, Jennifer, and Levi, Margaret. 2015. "When Elites Meet : Decentralization, Power-Sharing, and Public Goods Provision in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone." Policy Research Working Paper; no. WPS 7335. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group.
Popular Press and Other Entries
Clayton, Amanda & Pär Zetterberg. 30 May 2018. "Will 2018’s ‘pink wave’ of female candidates make it in Congress? Almost certainly. Here’s how."
The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.
Clayton, Amanda, Diana O'Brien & Jennifer Piscopo. 4 April 2017. "Americans don’t like it when men (and only men) make decisions about women"
The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.
Clayton, Amanda. 11 September 2014. "Corporate Boardrooms: Where are the Women?" post on the Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program blog, The WAPPP Wire.
Ahlquist, John S., Amanda B. Clayton, & Margaret Levi. 28 October 2013. "What are the implications of the AFL-CIO's expanding membership criteria?" post on The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.
Consulting Reports
Clayton, Amanda. 19 September 2014. "Namibia at a Crossroads: 50/50 and the Way Forward." IPPR Democracy Report and Legal Assistance Centre Monograph Series. Windhoek, Namibia.