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Recent publications by members of the GPRG include:

• Mona Lena Krook and Fiona Mackay (eds) (2011) Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Meryl Kenny (2011) 'Gender and the Institutions of Political Recruitment: candidate selection in post-devolution Scotland' in M.L. Krook and F. Mackay (eds) Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, pp.21-41
• Meryl Kenny and Fiona Mackay (2011) 'In the Balance. Women and the 2011 Scottish parliament elections', Scottish Affairs 76 (Summer), 74-90 
• Meryl Kenny and Fiona Mackay (2011) 'Gender and Devolution in Spain and the UK', Politics & Gender 7 (2), 280-286
• Claire Duncanson (2010) 'Do Forces for Good contain Real Men? Military Masculinities in the British Operations Other than War' in A. Bergman-Rosamond and M. Phythian (eds) War, Ethics and Justice: New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World. London: Routledge.
• Rosalind Cavaghan (2010) 'Gender Knowledge: a Review of Theory and Practice' In B. Young and C. Scherrer (eds). The Knowledge Behind: The Role of Gender Knowledge and Knowledge Networks in Policy Making. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• Fiona Mackay, Meryl Kenny and Louise Chappell (2010) 'New Institutionalism through a Gender Lens: Towards a feminist institutionalism?' International Political Science Review 31(5):1-16
• Fiona Mackay (2010) 'Gendering constitutional change and policy outcomes: substantive representation and domestic violence policy in Scotland', Policy and Politics 38 (3):369-388
• Fiona Mackay (2010) 'Devolution and the Multilevel Politics of Gender in the UK: The Case of Scotland' in M. Haussman, M. Sawer and J. Vickers (eds) Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance, London: Ashgate, pp. 155-168.
  
• Esther Breitenbach and Fiona Mackay (2010) 'Feminist politics in Scotland from the 1970s to 2000s: engaging with the changing state' in Esther Breitenbach and Pat Thane (eds) Women and Citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the 20th Century: What difference did the vote make?, London: Continuum, pp.153-169.
• Fiona Mackay and Meryl Kenny (2010) 'Women and political representation in post-devolution Scotland: high time or high tide?' in Esther Breitenbach and Pat Thane (eds) Women and Citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the 20th Century: What difference did the vote make?, London: Continuum, pp. 171-188.
  
• Amanda Wittman (2010) 'Looking local, finding global: paradoxes of gender mainstreaming in the Scottish Executive', Review of International Studies, 36: 51-76.
• Fiona Mackay and Meryl Kenny (2009) 'Women's political representation and the SNP: gendered paradoxes and puzzles' in Gerry Hassan (ed) The Modern SNP: From Protest to Power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 42-54.
  
• Meryl Kenny and Fiona Mackay (2009) 'Already doin' it for ourselves? Skeptical notes on feminism and institutionalism', Politics & Gender, 5 (2), 271-280.
• Darcy Leigh (2009) 'Colonialism, Gender and the Family in North America: For a Gendered Analysis of Indigenous Struggles', Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 9 (1), 70-88.
• Fiona Mackay (2009) 'Gender' in M. Flinders, A. Gamble, C. Hay and M. Kenny (eds) The Oxford Handbook of British Politics. Oxford University Press, pp. 646-662.
• Claire Duncanson (2009) 'Forces for Good? Narratives of Military Masculinity in Peacekeeping Operations', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 11 (1).
• Fiona Mackay (2008) '"Thick" conceptions of substantive representation: women, gender and political institutions', Representation, 44 (2), 125-139.
• Claire Duncanson and Catherine Eschle (2008) 'Gender and the Nuclear Weapons State: A Feminist Critique of the UK Government's White Paper on Trident', New Political Science, 30 (4) [special issue on Alternative Globalizations: Challenges to Neoliberalism, Empire, and Militarism]
• Meryl Kenny (2007) 'Gender, Institutions, and Power: A Critical Review', Politics, 27 (2), 91-100.
• Fiona Mackay and Meryl Kenny (2007) 'Women's Representation in the 2007 Scottish Parliament: Temporary Setback or Return to the Norm?' (PDF), Scottish Affairs, 60 (Summer), 25-38.
• Fiona Mackay (2006) 'Descriptive and Substantive Representation in new parliamentary spaces: the case of Scotland', in M. Sawer, M. Tremblay and L. Trimble (eds) Representing Women in Parliament: A Comparative Study. Routledge.
• Paul Chaney, Fiona Mackay, and Laura McAllister (2006) Women, Politics and Constitutional Change: the First Years of the National Assembly for Wales. Celtic Studies Board, University of Wales Press.
• Claire Duncanson (2005) 'Forces for Good: Changing Military Masculinities in the UK Armed Forces'. New Voices, New Perspecitives Series. INSTRAW.
• Fiona Mackay (2004) 'Gender and Political Representation in the UK: the state of the 'discipline'' in British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 6 (1), 101-122.