About

Ashley English is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas.  Her research interests focus on women’s representation throughout the policymaking process, with a particular focus on women’s organizations, policy implementation, and policy enforcement in the United States.  Following the US Women’s National Soccer team’s 2019 World Cup win, Dr. English’s 2021 Social Sciences Quarterly article ”Is it a Four-Star Movement? Policy Transformation and The US Women’s National Soccer Team’s Campaign for Equal Pay” revealed that the team’s equal pay lawsuit received a great deal of media attention and laid the groundwork for future change. However, the team rarely used their case to call for changes in how American equal pay laws are enforced so their case did little to close the gender wage gap for American women in the short run. Her work on rulemaking, women’s organizations, and women’s campaigns has also appeared in Politics & Gender; Politics, Groups, and Identities; the Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy; Political Research Quarterly, and Electoral Studies.  Dr. English regularly teaches classes on Gender & Politics, Interest Groups, the Public Policymaking Process, and American political institutions at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Prior to entering academia, Dr. English worked at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington, DC for four years.

Gender and Politics Publications

English, Ashley. “ Is it a four-star movement? Policy transformation and the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s campaign for equal pay.” Social Science Quarterly. 2021; 102: 1966–1981. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13026

English, Ashley, Regina Branton, and Amy Friesenhahn. Forthcoming. “Outsiders Among Outside Groups? Campaign Advertising and the Electability of Female House Candidates.” Political, Groups, and Identities 

English, Ashley. 2021. “Lobbying Beyond Legislatures: Women’s Organizations’ Participation in Rulemaking.” Politics & Gender https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X21000350​

English, Ashley. 2021. “Is it a Four Star Movement? Policy Transformation and The US Women’s National Soccer Team’s Campaign for Equal Pay.” Social Science Quarterly 102(4):1966-1981.

English, Ashley. 2021. “Implementing Intersectionality: Women’s Organizations’ Representation of Women During Two Rulemakings” Politics, Groups, and Identities 9(4):739-758.
 
English, Ashley. 2020. “Where are All the Single Ladies? Marital Status and Women’s Organizations’ Rulemaking Campaigns” Politics & Gender 16(2): 581-607.

English, Ashley. 2019. “She Who Shall Not be Named: The Women that Women’s Organizations Do (and Do Not) Represent in the Rulemaking Process.”  Politics & Gender 15(3): 573-598.

English, Ashley, Pearson, Kathryn, and Dara Strolovitch. 2019. “Who Represents Me? Race, Gender, Partisan Congruence and Representational Alternatives in a Polarized America.” Political Research Quarterly. 72(4): 785-804.Data available here. 
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Branton, Regina, Ashley English, Samantha Pettey, and Tiffany Barnes. 2018. “The Impact of Gender and Quality Opposition on the Relative Assessment of Candidate Competency.” Electoral Studies 54:35-43.

English, Ashley. 2016. “Rewriting Title IX: The Department of Education’s Response to Feminists’ Comments in the Rulemaking Process.” Politics & Gender 12(3): 491-517.

Email: ashely.english@unt.edu