Research on Gender and Politics
Gender identities and gender stereotypes shape how we think about ourselves and our relationship to others. My work focuses on how gender shapes attitudes toward politics and the political system, from how we think about political competency to how women, men and gender diverse people engage in politics.
This work has included developing novel measures of gendered competition, implicit test of gender’s relationship to politics, and new measures of gender identity. To learn more about my work in this area, here is some of my published work on this theme.
2025 Quinn Albaugh, Allison Harell, Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson & Laura Stephenson. Measuring Transgender and Non-Binary Identities in Online Surveys: Evidence from Two National Election Studies . PS: Political Science and Politics, 58(3): 406-412. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096525000137
2025 Chen, Philip, Melanee Thomas, Tania Gosselin & Allison Harell. ‘What’s Her Job?’ Agentic Women, Sexism, and the Consequences for Political Candidate Emergence. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 46(1):73-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2024.2359140
2025 Quinn Albaugh, Allison Harell, Peter John Loewen, Daniel Rubenson & Laura Stephenson. From Gender Gap to Gender Gaps: Bringing Nonbinary People into Political Behavior Research.” Perspectives on Politics. 23(1): 286-304. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724000975
2023 Philip Chen, Melanee Thomas, Allison Harell & Tania Gosselin. Implicit and Explicit Gender Stereotyping in Politics. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 56(1): 209-221. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423922000890
2023 Joanie Bouchard & Allison Harell. Genre et populisme au Canada. In Frédérick Guillaume Dufour and Efe Peker (eds.) Populisme et sciences sociales: Perspectives québécoises, canadiennes et transatlantiques. Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, pp. 263-284.
2023 Tania Gosselin & Allison Harell. Quels sont les impacts des stéréotypes en politique ? L’exemple du genre. Jean-Guy Prévost & Paul May (eds.) Problèmes politiques contemporains. JFD Éditions. pp. 45-54.
2022 Jordan Mansell, Allison Harell, Melanee Thomas & Tania Gosselin. Competition and Gendered Backlash: Failure, Sexism, and Consequences for Politics. Political Behavior, 44(1): 455-476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09724-8
2020 Melanee Thomas, Allison Harell, Sanne A.M Rijkhoff & Tania Gosselin. Gendered Mediation, News-Mediated Normalization, and Women as Heads of Government. Political Communication 38(4): 388-406 https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1784326
2019 Melanee Thomas, Allison Harell & Tania Gosselin. Gender, Tone and Content of Premiers’ News Coverage : A Matched Comparison. In Alex Marland, Andrew Lawlor & Thierry Giasson (eds.) Political Elites in Canada. University of British Columbia Press. pp. 89-108.
2017 Allison Harell. Intersectionality and Gendered Political Behaviour in a Multicultural Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 50(2): 495-514. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000842391700021X
2017 Allison Harell, Stuart Soroka, Shanto Iyengar & Valérie Lapointe. Attitudes toward Work, Motherhood and Parental Leave in Canada, the US and the UK. In Amanda Bittner and Melanee Thomas. Mothers and Others. UBC Press, pp. 247-267.
2013 Elisabeth Gidengil & Allison Harell. L’appui des Québécoises aux partis politiques provinciaux. Frédérick Bastien, Éric Bélanger and François Gélineau (eds.) Les Québécois aux urnes: Les partis, les médias et les citoyens en campagne. Presses de l’Université de Montréal, pp. 205-218.
2013 Allison Harell & Dimitrios Panagos. Locating the Aboriginal Gender Gap: The Political Preferences and Participation of Aboriginal Women in Canada. Politics and Gender. 9(4): 414-438. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X1300038X
2010 Marc Hooghe, Ellen Claes, Allison Harell, Ellen Quintelier & Yves Dejaeghere. Anti-Gay Sentiment among Adolescents in Belgium and Canada: A Comparative Investigation into the Role of Gender and Religion. Journal of Homosexuality. 57(3): 384-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918360903543071
2009 Allison Harell. Equal Participation but Separate Paths?: Women’s Social Capital and Turnout. Journal of Women, Politics and Policy(formerly Women and Politics). 30(1):1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/15544770802367770
2007 Elisabeth Gidengil, Allison Harell & Bonnie Erickson. Network Diversity and Vote Choice: Women’s Social Ties and Left Voting in Canada. Politics and Gender 3(2): 151-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X07000013
