Louise Chappell

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Louise Chappell
Nationality Australian
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AwardsFellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
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Louise A. Chappell FASSA is an Australian political scientist. She is a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, where she is also the director of the Australian Human Rights Institute. She studies gender and politics, the politics of the International Criminal Court, and the politics of Australia in comparative perspective.

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Chappell attended the University of New England in New South Wales, where she earned a bachelor's degree and a graduate certificate in political science in 1990. [1] In 1998, she graduated from the University of Sydney with a PhD in political science. [1]

In 2002, Chappell published Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada. The study compared the interactions of feminists in Canada and Australia with their respective governments since the 1970s, as they advocated for policies on women's rights and issues that particularly affect women. [2] Chappell studies how the different arrangements of electoral, bureaucratic, legal, and federal institutions in Canada and Australia prompted feminist activists to use different strategies in their attempts to influence policy, and compares the resulting political outcomes. [3] Chappell uses the fact that Canada and Australia have superficially similar Westminster systems to explore which deeper institutional differences might have caused the differences in outcomes between the two countries. [4] Gendering Government won the 2003 Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association, which honors the best book published on the topic of women and politics each year. [5]

Chappell wrote a second book, The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court, in 2016. The book studies the implementation of the rules on gender justice that were part of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, examining why the application of those rules by the International Criminal Court has been uneven and incomplete. [6] [7] Chappell has also been an co-editor on multiple edited volumes. Together with the political scientist Lisa Hill, she edited the 2006 volume The Politics of Women's Interests: New Comparative Perspectives, and with Lisa Hill and John Chesterman she edited the book The Politics of Human Rights in Australia in 2009. [1]

In addition to her publications in peer-reviewed journals, Chappell has also published articles in news outlets like ABC News Australia, [8] The Sydney Morning Herald , [9] and The Conversation . [10]

Chappell holds the title of Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, which is awarded by the university to "highly performing Professors". [11] In 2016, Chappell was named a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. [12] From 2010 to 2014, she was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Scientia Professor Louise Chappell". University of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  2. ↑ Westhues, Anne (1 April 2004). "Review Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada". Canadian Review of Social Policy (53): 196.
  3. ↑ True, Jacqui (1 December 2004). "Book Review: Louise A. Chappell, Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002), pp. 224, paper Can$27.95". Political Science: Leadership in New Zealand. 56 (2): 136–138. doi:10.1177/003231870405600217. S2CID   145183145.
  4. ↑ Vickers, Jill (1 September 2003). "Review of Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 36 (4): 929–930.
  5. ↑ "Victoria Schuck Award". American Political Science Association. 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  6. ↑ von Gall, Anna (November 2016). "Book Review Louise Chappell. The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court: Legacies and Legitimacy". European Journal of International Law. 27 (4): 1176–1181. doi: 10.1093/ejil/chw070 .
  7. ↑ Zwingel, Susanne (March 2017). "The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court: Legacies and Legitimacy. By Louise Chappell. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 276 pp. $29.95 (paperback)". Politics & Gender. 13 (1): 171–174. doi:10.1017/S1743923X16000659. S2CID   151787407.
  8. ↑ Chappell, Louise (20 March 2014). "Sex and politics: a return to business as usual". ABC News Australia. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  9. ↑ Louise Chappell; Natalie Galea (6 December 2016). "Construction is the last frontier for women at work". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  10. ↑ Louise Chappell; Lindon Coombes (11 April 2019). "No matter who is elected, more work remains on women's rights and Indigenous issues". The Conv. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  11. ↑ "Scientia Professors". University of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  12. 1 2 "ASSA elects thirty-nine new fellows in 2016" (PDF). Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  13. 1 2 "Louise Chappell". ABC News. 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
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