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Journal articles
2021, 'What’s on offer: how do parties appeal to women voters in election manifestos?', Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 31, pp. 508 - 527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2021.1968411
,2019, 'What did the coalition government do for women? An analysis of gender equality policy agendas in the UK 2010–2015', British Politics, 14, pp. 162 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41293-018-00103-2
,2017, 'What do women symbolize? Symbolic representation and cabinet appointments', POLITICS GROUPS AND IDENTITIES, 5, pp. 488 - 493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2017.1321997
,2015, 'Gender and the Executive Branch', Politics and Gender, 11, pp. 613 - 617, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X15000446
,2015, 'Rules of Ministerial Recruitment', Politics and Gender, 11, pp. 618 - 642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X15000434
,2015, 'The profile of gender equality issue attention in Western Europe', European Journal of Political Research, 54, pp. 525 - 542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12095
,2014, 'Can cameron capture women's votes? the gendered impediments to a conservative majority in 2015', Parliamentary Affairs, 67, pp. 767 - 782, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsu001
,2014, 'Policy Advocacy in Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Performance on Gendering Executive Attention', West European Politics, 37, pp. 886 - 902, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2014.902168
,2013, 'Gender, capitalism and economic crisis: Impact and responses', Argument, 55, pp. 210 - 218, https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84878694263&partnerID=40&md5=1e417cbbe92e9335779bcc789285447f
,2013, 'Geschlecht, Kapitalismus und Wirtschaftskrise: Wirkung und Reaktionen', Das Argument, 1/2, pp. 210 - 210
,2013, 'Investigating the Economic Determinants of the UK Gender Equality Policy Agenda', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 15, pp. 125 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2011.00492.x
,2012, 'Campaigning against the Cuts: Gender Equality Movements in Tough Times', Political Quarterly, 83, pp. 19 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2012.02261.x
,2012, 'David Cameron's 'Problem' with Women: Representing Women in the Coalition Government', Political Quarterly, 83, pp. 718 - 725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2012.02362.x
,2011, 'Gender, Capitalism and Economic Crisis: Impact and Responses', Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 19, pp. 335 - 347, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2011.610604
,2010, 'Engendering politics and policy: The legacy of New Labour', Policy and politics, 38, pp. 389 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557310X521071
,2010, 'Gender, politics and policy change: The case of welfare reform under new labour', Government and Opposition, 45, pp. 50 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.2009.01304.x
,2010, 'Gendering politics and policy', Policy and politics, 38, pp. 333 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557310X521035
,2010, 'The Core Executive: Gender, Power and Change', Political Studies, 58, pp. 909 - 929, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00824.x
,2007, 'Lisbon and social Europe: Towards a European 'adult worker model' welfare system', Journal of European Social Policy, 17, pp. 195 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928707078363
,2007, 'Women's political agency and welfare reform: Engendering the adult worker model', Parliamentary Affairs, 60, pp. 452 - 466, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsm018
,2006, 'Ver.di and trade union revitalisation in Germany', INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, 37, pp. 164 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2338.2006.00396.x
,2004, 'The Labour market under new Labour: The state of working Britain 2003', POLITICAL QUARTERLY, 75, pp. 201 - 203, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000221059100020&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2003, 'Why we need a new welfare state', POLITICAL QUARTERLY, 74, pp. 256 - 258, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000182457400023&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2003, 'Americanised and Europeanised: UK Social Policy since 1997', The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 5, pp. 143 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-856x.00101
,2003, 'Transforming Welfare and Gender Regimes: Evidence from the UK and Germany', Comparative European Politics, 1, pp. 129 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cep.6110006
,2002, 'A European welfare state? European Union social policy in context', POLITICAL STUDIES, 50, pp. 616 - 617, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000177294600036&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2002, 'Welfare states under pressure', POLITICAL STUDIES, 50, pp. 616 - 617, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000177294600037&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2002, 'Why deregulate labour markets?', POLITICAL QUARTERLY, 73, pp. 242 - 244, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000175385800023&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2002, 'Reconfiguring Women's Social Citizenship in Germany: The Right to Sozialhilfe; the Responsibility to Work', German Politics, 11, pp. 81 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/714001236
,1998, 'Contrasting Approaches: Quangos in Germany and Britain', The Stakeholder, 2
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