Mona Lena Krook

Mona Lena Krook is an American political scientist. She is a Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, where she is also the Chair of the Women and Politics program. She studies the political representation of women, particularly gender quotas in governments and the phenomenon of violence against women in politics.

Mona Lena Krook
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorMark Kesselman

Education and early work

Krook attended Columbia University, where she obtained a BA in political science in 1997.[1] From 1997 to 1998, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Helsinki.[1] Krook then returned to Columbia University, where she earned an MPhil in 1999, and a Certificate in Western European Studies and one in Feminist Scholarship in 2001.[1] She graduated from Columbia University with a PhD in 2005, with a dissertation entitled Politicizing Representation: Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas Worldwide.[1] While she was a student, Krook had temporary affiliations with the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Oslo, and the University of Stockholm.[1]

In 2004, Krook was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for one year at the University of Bristol, after which she joined the faculty in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.[1] From 2008 to 2009, she was a fellow at Harvard University.[1] In 2012, she moved to Rutgers University.[1]

Career

In 2009, Krook published the book Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide, which studied why the adoption of gender quotas for women in government in more than 100 countries had not resulted in a universal increase in the representation of women.[2] Krook studies three types of quotas: reserved seats, party quotas, and legislative quotas, each of which is a different method for attempting to ensure fairer representation of women in government.[3] She studies the rationales for and effects of these types by matching pairs of countries: she pairs Pakistan and India, Sweden and the United Kingdom, and Argentina and France.[3] By pairing countries which have similar quota types but different outcomes, Krook illustrates that the quota type is not the main determinant of how representation changes; rather, each type of quota can be more or less effective in improving representation.[4] Quotas for Women in Politics was one of the first attempts to study gender quotes in an explicitly comparative framework, rather than focusing on one case at a time.[5]

For Quotas for Women in Politics, Krook won the 2010 Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association, which honors the best book published on the topic of women and politics each year.[6] 9 years later, the book won the George H. Hallett Award from the Representation and Electoral Systems Section of the American Political Science Association, which recognizes a book that was published at least 10 years previously that made a lasting contribution to the study of representation and electoral systems.[7]

Krook has also written a second book, the 2020 volume Violence Against Women in Politics: A Global Phenomenon. She has also edited or co-edited 6 books, in addition to her articles in peer-reviewed journals.[1] Several of those papers have also won awards, including the 2016 Wilma Rule Award for Best Research on Gender and Politics from the International Political Science Association for the paper "Violence Against Women in Politics: A Rising Threat to Democracy Worldwide", and the Best Paper Award from the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association for her paper "Mapping Violence against Women in Politics: Aggression, Harassment, and Discrimination against Female Politicians", which Krook co-authored with Juliana Restrepo Sanin.[8]

Krook's work has been cited, or she has been quoted, in outlets like The New York Times,[9] The Hill,[10] The Economist,[11] Wired,[12] and The Washington Post.[13] From 2015 to 2020, she was a Chancellor's Scholar at Rutgers University.[14]

Selected works
  • "Reforming representation: The diffusion of candidate gender quotas worldwide", Politics & Gender (2006)
  • Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide (2009)
  • Violence Against Women in Politics: A Global Phenomenon (2020)

Selected awards
  • Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association Representation and Electoral Systems[6]
  • Wilma Rule Award, International Political Science Association[8]
  • Best Paper Award, American Political Science Association Women and Politics[1]

References
  1. "Mona Lena Krook". Rutgers University. 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  2. Ellerby, Kara (1 April 2011). "Review Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide by Mona Lena Krook". Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. 32 (2): 164–166. doi:10.1080/1554477X.2011.562139.
  3. Staudt, K (1 January 2010). "Review Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide by Mona Lena Krook". CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 47 (5): 973.
  4. Franceschet, Susan (31 March 2011). "Review Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide by Mona Lena Krook". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 44 (1): 225–226. doi:10.1017/S0008423911000060.
  5. Jones, Mark P (1 June 2010). "Review Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide by Mona Lena Krook". Perspectives on Politics. 8 (2): 704–705. doi:10.1017/S1537592710001003.
  6. "Victoria Schuck Award". American Political Science Association. 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  7. "George H. Hallett announcement". APSA on Twitter. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  8. "Awards - Wilma Rule Award: IPSA Award for the Best Research on Gender and Politics". International Political Science Association. 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  9. Hassan, Adeel (23 December 2019). "'Worthless. Gutless. Loser.' Online Attacks Escalate When the Mayor Is a Woman". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  10. Budryck, Zack (26 December 2019). "Study finds female mayors three times more likely to be physically attacked". The Hill. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  11. Iwu, Lewis (5 September 2018). "Affirmative action strengthens a meritocracy". The Economist. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  12. Ellis, Emma Grey (3 April 2020). "Greta Thunberg's Online Attackers Reveal a Grim Pattern". Wired. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  13. Nugent, Mary (16 July 2016). "So the U.K. has its second female prime minister. What policies put more women in power?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  14. "Chancellor's Scholars". Rutgers University. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
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