Shauna L. Shames, PhD

• Bernhard, Rachel; Shames, Shauna; and Teele, Dawn Langan.  2021.  "To Emerge?  Breadwinning, Motherhood, and Women's Decisions to Run for Office." American Political Science Review 115(2); 379-394.

• Shames, Shauna: 2017.  "Intersectionality and Political Ambition," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.

• Shames, Shauna; Frankel, Laura Lazarus; and Farjood, Nadia: 2017.  "Romance, Sexual Attraction, and Women's Political Ambition; Initial Findings from Two Experiments,"Sexuality & Culture Journal 21(4); 1177-96.

• Shames, Shauna and Wise, Tess: 2017. "Gender, Diversity, & Methods in Political Science:  A Theory of Selection and Survival Biases," PS: Political Science & Politics 50(3); 811-823.

• Shames, Shauna: 2015. "American women of color and rational non-candidacy: when silent citizenship makes politics look like old white men shouting," Citizenship Studies 19(5); 553-569.

• Shames, Shauna: 2014. "Making the Political Personal."  Politics & Gender Journal 10(2); 287-292.

• Mansbridge, Jane and Shames, Shauna: 2008. "Toward a Theory of Backlash: Dynamic Resistance and the Central Role of Power,"Politics & Gender Journal 4 (4); 623-634 (translated into French and re-published in Recherches Féministes, May 2012).

• Williams, Joan C. and Shames, Shauna: 2003-4. "Mothers' Dreams: Abortion and the High Price of Motherhood," University of Penn. Journal of Constitutional Law 6; 818-843.

• Shames, Shauna: 2003. "The 'Un-Candidates:' Gender and Outsider Signals in Women's Political Advertisements," Women & Politics Journal 25 (1/2); 115-147.

PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS (selected)

• "What, if Anything, is to be Done?"  (2012), Chapter co-authored with Kay Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry Brady, in Schlozman, Verba, and Brady: The Un-Heavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• “Culture War?: A Closer Look at the Role of Religion, Denomination, and Religiosity in U.S. Public Opinion on Multiple Sexualities” (2011), Chapter co-authored with Didi Kuo and Katie Levine, in Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the U.S., eds. David Rayside and Clyde Wilcox. Toronto: University of British Columbia Press

• “The Status of Women in Leadership in Political Science” (2010), Chapter in Gender and Women’s Leadership: A Reference Handbook, ed. Karen O’Connor. Washington, DC: Sage Press

• “The Gender Basis of Public Opinion” (2009), Chapter co-authored with Virginia Sapiro, in Understanding Public Opinion, 3rd Edition, eds. Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, DC: CQ Press

• "Pathways to Child Care Policy: The Role of Gender in State-Building" (2009), Chapter co-authored with Kristin Goss, in Women and Politics Around the World, eds. Joyce Gelb and Marian Lief Palley.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press

• “'If I Bend This Far I Will Break?': Public Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage" (2007), Chapter co-authored chapter with Clyde Wilcox, Paul Brewer, and Celinda Lake, in The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage, eds. Clyde Wilcox and Craig Rimmerman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

CONFERENCE PAPERS (selected)

• "Barriers and Solutions to Increasing Women's Political Power" (2015), Strategy and backgrounder paper for The Women Effect Symposium, Sponsored by SSN and the Rockefeller and Wyss Foundations. Cambridge, MA, February 26, 2015

• "Redefining the Stonewall: When and Why the Gay Rights Movement Adopted Marriage Equality as its Top Priority" (2014), Co-authored with David Manella, Harvard College, Conference paper prepared for presentation at the New England Political Science Association's annual meeting. Woodstock, Vermont, April 25-26

• “What, if Anything, Shall be Done (about Inequalities in Participation)?” (2011), Co-authored with Kay Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry Brady.  Conference paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association’s annual meeting, April. Palmer House Hilton: Chicago, IL.

• “Doubly Bound Revisited: Further Investigations into Race and Gender Effects of Descriptive Representation” (2008). Co-authored with Porsha Cropper.  Conference paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association’s annual meeting, April.  Palmer House Hilton: Chicago, IL

• "The Gender Consciousness of Conservative Women" (2005), Co-authored with Clyde Wilcox and Carin Larson Robinson. Conference paper, presented at American Political Science Association's annual meeting, August. Washington DC.

• "Mobilizing Backlash: Interest Groups' Response to Supreme Court Decisions" (2005), Conference paper presented at Midwest Political Science Association’s annual meeting, March. Palmer House Hilton: Chicago, IL

• "Where Women Win: Closing the Gap in Congress" (2016), Responsible for data collection, and drafting and editing report.  Report by Political Parity, a project of Hunt Alternatives, Cambridge, MA.

• "Twin States: A Multiplier Effect" (2013), Responsible for conducting and analyzing research and drafting text of report on women's high-level elective leadership, in Senate and Governor's seats, across states.  Report by Political Parity, a project of Hunt Alternatives, Cambridge, MA.

• “Benchmarking Women’s Leadership” (2009), Responsible for research and drafting full text of report on the status of women in leadership across sectors. Published by The White House Project, New York, NY

• "Women, News, and Political Participation: Pre-Conference Reader” (2007),  Research report and background conference materials for the Shorenstein Center, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA.

• "Women and Politics Worldwide" (2004), Report on an international conference held in Salzburg, Austria, spring 2004. Published by the Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria.

• “Ending Discrimination Against Family Caregivers” (2003), Policy report co-authored with Joan Williams and Raja Kudchadkar. Published by the Work/Life Law Center, a program of the Washington College of Law of American University, Washington, DC.

• “Who’s Talking? An Analysis of Sunday Morning Talk Shows” (2001), Report co-authored with White House Project staff and consultants. Published by The White House Project, New York, NY.