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Even Today, a Western and Gendered Social Science: Persistent Geographic and Gender Biases in Undergraduate IR Teaching / Knight, Sarah Cleeland

Sarah Cleeland Knight	Journal Article
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A perennial critique of international relations is that the field focuses disproportionately on the United States and Europe and contains a gender bias in terms of ignoring issues of particular concern to women. The field is also infamous for how difficult it is for female scholars to publish and have their publications cited. This study evaluates these claims of bias in the area of undergraduate international relations teaching by analyzing an original dataset of 48 introduction to international relations syllabi from ten countries. The study analyzes the authors of required readings and the theories and empirical topics taught, and finds that the geographic and gender biases are both firmly in place. The first finding is that courses assign readings predominantly from US-resident, US-trained, male authors, even those courses taught outside the United States and those taught by female faculty. A second finding is that assigned readings focus overwhelmingly on the United States more than any other country or region, and only 1 percent of readings focus specifically on gender-related issues.

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Geographic ; Gender Biases ; IR Teaching

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Geographic diffusion and the transformation of the Postcommunist world / Kopstein Jeffrey S

Oct 2000

Kopstein Jeffrey S	Article
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Geographic ; Postcommunist World

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Who turned out at the polls? socioeconomic and geographic perspectives on 2015 voter turnouts in Israel / Friedberg, Chen; Atmor, Nir

Friedberg, Chen	Journal Article
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2015 was an important year in the history of Israeli general elections: voter turnout rose by 4.5% compared to the 2013 elections, exceeding the 70% threshold after 16 years of low rates. Interesting as this may be, a more interesting question is: who were the voters turning out at the polls in the 2015 elections (and where)? When looking at the election results from the municipal perspective, we can see a variance between localities: turnouts were high in some places while in others they were low. In order to explain the differences in voting patterns among localities we conducted an ecological analysis of the aggregated data regarding participation rates in 196 municipalities in Israel, as well as their social and economic characteristics. The most salient finding is that political participation in peripheral and low socioeconomic localities was lower than in the country’s geographical and generally more economically robust centre.

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Israel ; Geographic ; Socioeconomic ; Periphery ; 2015 Elections ; Voter Turnouts ;
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