The RNGS Data Set: Women's Policy Agencies, Women's Movements and Policy Debates in Western Post-Industrial Democracies
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The RNGS Data Set: Women’s Policy Agencies, Women’s Movements and Policy Debates in Western Post-Industrial Democracies Amy G. Mazura and Dorothy E. McBrideb a
Department of Political Science, Washington State University, Box 64480, Pullman, WA 99164-4880, USA. E-mail: [email protected] b Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
The goal of this article is to describe the contents of the data set assembled by the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNGS) through its study of the impact of women’s movements and women’s policy agencies in policy debates in post-industrial democracies in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The article begins by summarizing the RNGS project and the methods for gathering and measuring the information. The body of the article lists all of the concepts and sub-variables in the data set. For each of the 28 concepts, the nominal definition, the questions pertaining to measurement and coding, and the information included in the data set are discussed. French Politics (2006) 4, 209–236. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fp.8200101 Keywords: Comparative data set; cross-national data set; post-industrial democracies; Western Europe; women’s policy agencies; women’s movements; gender and policy; comparative gender and politics; comparative public policy; RNGS; research network on gender politics and the state; comparative state feminism
The goal of this article is to describe the contents of the data set assembled by the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNGS) through its study of the impact of women’s movements and women’s policy agencies in policy debates in post-industrial democracies in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. While the variables for the data set were selected, defined, and measured to meet the particular research design of the RNGS project, the data are likely to be of interest to other researchers, whether or not they work on questions arising from this project. We begin by summarizing the RNGS project and the methods for gathering and measuring the information. The body of the article lists all of the concepts and sub-variables in the data set. For each of the 28 concepts, we discuss the nominal definition, the questions pertaining to measurement and coding, and the information included in the data set.
Amy G. Mazur and Dorothy E. McBride The RNGS Data Set
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Research Goals and Design Created in 1995, RNGS is comprised of 40 researchers from 16 countries, one of which is France. RNGS members designed and are currently completing the large-scale comparative research project that examines if, how, and why women’s policy offices, through their relations with women’s movements, make post-industrial democracies more democratic and the state more feminist1 RNGS work encompasses the momentous years of women’s movements from the emergence of autonomous protests in Europe and North America for the liberation of women in the 1960s and 1970s through the successful integration of movement activists into conventional politics in the 1990s and
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