Articles by Karen Celis

April 19, 2023

🦋 Inclusive democracy: a second-generation design

Karen Celis

Fixing numbers is not enough. In their second-generation design for inclusive democracy, Karen Celis and Sarah Childs refashion representation processes to incentivise elected representatives to care more for diverse citizens. The designed-for effects? Experiencing better representation ‘in the round’, the most marginalised feeling recognised by and connected with democratic politics

Karen Celis

Full Professor, Political Science Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Karen is co-director of RHEA, Centre of Expertise Gender, Diversity, Intersectionality and VUB Academic Advisor Equality Policy.

She conducts theoretical and empirical research on the democratic quality of political representation from an intersectional perspective.

Karen is in charge of political science and interdisciplinary research programmes and projects about gender, diversity and intersectionality, and about political representation, resentment and polarisation.

She was co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics (OUP, 2013), the book series Gender and Comparative Politics (Routledge, 2017–2020) and founding editor (2018–2020) of the European Journal of Politics and Gender (Bristol University Press.

Gender, Conservatism and Political Representation

Gender, Conservatism and Political Representation
Co-edited with Sarah Childs, ECPR Press, 2014

Feminist Democratic Representation

Feminist Democratic Representation
Co-authored with Sarah Childs, OUP, 2020

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