Refereed Journal Articles (36)
2024
Holmsten, Stephanie, Melanie M. Hughes, and Robert Moser. “Invisibility or Inclusion? Ethnic Parties, Ethnic Seats, and Gender Quotas and the Representation of Minoritized Women.” Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy 45(2):191–212. doi:10.1080/1554477X.2023.2256625.
2023
Finkel, Müge Kökten, Caroline Howard Grøn, and Melanie M. Hughes. “On the Move? Effects of Leadership Training and Intersectoral Mobility on Women’s Advancement in Danish Public Administration Management.” Review of Public Personnel Administration 43(2):215–238. doi:10.1177/0734371X211054875.
2022
Zetterberg, Pär, Elin Bjårnegard, Melanie M. Hughes, and Pamela Paxton. “Democracy and the Adoption of Gender Quotas Worldwide.” Journal of Comparative Politics 54(2):327–348. doi:10.5129/001041522X16222193902161.
2021
Arana Araya, Ignacio*, Melanie M. Hughes, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. “Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America.” American Journal of Political Science 65(2):373–388. doi:10.1111/ajps.12543.
2020
Plummer, Samantha, Melanie M. Hughes, and Jackie Smith. “The Challenges of Organizational Classification: A Research Note.” Social Currents 7(1):3–10. Available online September 27, 2019. doi:10.1177/2329496519878469.
Smith, Jackie, Melanie M. Hughes, Samantha Plummer*, and Brittany Duncan*. “Inter-Organizational Relations in Transnational Environmental and Women’s Activism: Multilateralists, Pragmatists, and Rejectionists.” Globalizations. Available online July 28, 2020. doi:10.1080/14747731.2020.1789028.
2019
Hughes, Melanie M., Pamela Paxton, Amanda B. Clayton, and Pär Zetterberg. "Global Gender Quota Adoption, Implementation, and Reform." Journal of Comparative Politics. 51(2):219–238. doi:10.5129/001041519X15647434969795.
2018
Childs, Sarah, and Melanie M. Hughes. "‘Which Men?’ How an Intersectional Perspective on Men and Masculinities Helps Us Understand Women’s Persistent Political Under-Representation." Politics & Gender 14(2):282–287. doi:10.1017/S1743923X1800017X.
Hughes, Melanie M., Pamela Paxton, Sharon Quinsaat, and Nicholas Reith. "Does the Global North Still Dominate the International Women's Movement? A Network Analysis of Women's International Nongovernmental Organizations, 1978-2008." Mobilization 23(1):1–21. doi:10.17813/1086-671X-23-1-1.
Plummer, Samantha, Jackie Smith, and Melanie M. Hughes. “Transnational Advocacy Networks and Global Health Governance.” Global Health Governance 12(1):62–74. http://blogs.shu.edu/ghg/files/2018/03/Spring-2018-Special-Issue.pdf#page=62.
Smith, Jackie, Basak Gemici, Samantha Plummer, and Melanie M. Hughes. "Transnational Social Movement Organizations and Counter-Hegemonic Struggles Today." Journal of World-Systems Research 24(2):372–403. doi:10.5195/JWSR.2018.850.
Tripp, Aili Mari, and Melanie M. Hughes. “Methods, Methodologies, and Epistemologies in Gender and Politics Research.” European Journal of Politics & Gender. doi:10.1332/251510818X15272520831201.
2017
Hughes, Melanie M., Pamela Paxton, and Mona Lena Krook. "Gender Quotas for Legislatures and Corporate Boards." Annual Review of Sociology 43:331–52. doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053324.
Smith, Jackie, Samantha Plummer, and Melanie M. Hughes. "Transnational Contention and Changing Organizational Fields in the Late-20th and Early-21st Centuries." Global Networks 17(1):3–22. doi:10.1111/glob.12152.
2016
Hughes, Melanie M. "Electoral Systems and the Legislative Representation of Ethnic Minority Muslim Women in the West, 2000-2010." Parliamentary Affairs 69(3):548‒568. doi:10.1093/pa/gsv062.
Reith, Nicholas, Pamela Paxton, and Melanie M. Hughes. "Building Cross-National, Longitudinal Datasets: Issues and Strategies for Implementation." International Journal of Sociology 46(1):21–41. doi:10.1080/00207659.2016.1130416.
2015
Hughes, Melanie M. and Lisa D. Brush. "The Price of Protection: A Trajectory Analysis of Civil Remedies for Abuse and Women's Earnings." American Sociological Review 80(1):140–165. doi:10.1177/0003122414561117.
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Hughes, Melanie M. and Aili Mari Tripp. "Civil War and Trajectories of Change in Women's Political Representation in Africa, 1985-2010." Social Forces 93(4):1513–1540. doi:10.1093/sf/sov003.
Hughes, Melanie M., Mona Lena Krook, and Pamela Paxton. "Transnational Women's Activism and the Global Diffusion of Gender Quotas." International Studies Quarterly 59(2):357–372. doi:10.1111/isqu.12190.
Paxton, Pamela and Melanie M. Hughes. "The Increasing Effectiveness of National Gender Quotas, 1990-2010."Legislative Studies Quarterly 40(3):331–62. doi:10.1111/lsq.12079.
Paxton, Pamela, Melanie M. Hughes, and Nicholas Reith. "Extending the International Nongovernmental Country Score, 1950-2008." Sociological Science 2:287–307. doi:10.15195/v2.a14.
2013
Hughes, Melanie M. "The Intersection of Gender and Minority Status in National Legislatures: The Minority Women Legislative Index." Legislative Studies Quarterly 38(4):489–516.
Crage, Suzanna M., Melanie M. Hughes, Peter Mohanty, and Terri E. Givens. "Gendered Jobs: Integrating Immigrants vs. Controlling Immigration in the European Union." Politics & Gender 9(1):31–60.
Hughes, Melanie M. "Diversity in National Legislatures around the World." Sociology Compass 7(1):23–33.
2011
Hughes, Melanie M. "Intersectionality, Quotas, and Minority Women's Political Representation Worldwide." American Political Science Review 105(3):604–620.
Hughes, Melanie M. and Lisa D. Brush. "Work, Welfare, and Protection Orders: Modeling Changing Earnings in the Context of Group Differences and Institutional Shifts." Violence Against Women 17(3):322–339.
2010
Paxton, Pamela, Melanie M. Hughes and Matthew Painter, II. "Growth in Women's Political Representation: A Longitudinal Exploration of Democracy, Electoral System and Gender Quotas." European Journal of Political Research 49:25–52.
2009
Hughes, Melanie M., Lindsey Peterson, Jill Ann Harrison, and Pamela Paxton. "Power and Relation in the World Polity: The INGO Network Country Score, 1978-1998." Social Forces 87(4):1712–1742.
Hughes, Melanie M. "Armed Conflict, International Linkages, and Women's Parliamentary Representation in Developing Nations." Social Problems 56(1):174–204.
Paxton, Pamela, Matthew Painter, II, and Melanie M. Hughes. "Year of the Woman, Decade of the Man: Trajectories of Growth in Women's Statehouse Representation." Social Science Research 38:86–102.
2008
Downey, Douglas, Paul von Hippel, and Melanie M. Hughes. "Are 'Failing' School Really Failing? Using Seasonal Comparisons to Separate School from Non-School Effects on Learning." Sociology of Education 81(3):242–270.
Hughes, Melanie M. and Pamela Paxton. "Continuous Change, Episodes, and Critical Periods: A Framework for Understanding Women's Political Representation over Time." Politics & Gender 4(2):233–264.
2007
Hughes, Melanie M. "Windows of Political Opportunity: Institutional Instability and Gender Inequality in the World's National Legislatures." International Journal of Sociology 37(4):26–51.
Hughes, Melanie M. and Pamela Paxton. "Familiar Theories from a New Perspective: The Implications of a Longitudinal Approach to Women in Politics Research." Politics & Gender 3(3):370–378.
Paxton, Pamela, Sheri Kunovich, and Melanie M. Hughes. "Gender in Politics." Annual Review of Sociology 33:263–284.
2006
Paxton, Pamela, Melanie M. Hughes, and Jennifer Green. "The International Women's Movement and Women's Political Representation, 1893-2003." American Sociological Review 71(6):898–920.
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