About

Sabine Lang is Professor of International and European Politics at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington. From 2015 to 2024,  she directed the Center for West European Studies and EU/Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. From 2021 to 2024, she held an EU Jean Monnet Chair in Civil Society, Inclusion and Diversity. Her research centers on gender politics and comparative politics with an emphasis on political representation, NGOs and social movements. Her latest publications include an edited volume, jointly with Prof. Petra Meier/University of Antwerp, and Prof. Birgit Sauer/University of Vienna, titled Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas – Resisting Institutions (Palgrave MacmIllan 2023) and a co-written monograph on Gender Equality in Politics: Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria (with Petra Ahrens, Katja Chmilewski and Birgit Sauer, Springer 2020). She edited a special issues of the journal German Politics and published a co-edited volume titled Leading From Behind? Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era (with Petra Ahrens and Phil Ayoub) published by Palgrave in 2023. Another edited volume on Gendered Mobilizations and Intersectional Challenges  was co-edited with Jill Irvine and Celeste Montoya with ECPR Press/Rowman & Littlefield in 2019. 

Publications

Books

Lang, Sabine/ Meier, Petra/ Sauer, Birgit (eds.) Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions. Palgrave MacmIllan 2023.

Ahrens, Petra/Ayoub, Phillip/Lang, Sabine (eds.) Leading From Behind. Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era. London/New York: Routledge 2023.

Irvine, Jill/Lang, Sabine/Montoya, Celeste (eds.) Gendered Mobilizations and Intersectional Challenges: Contemporary Social Movements in Europe and North America. ECPR Press/Rowman & Littlefield 2019.

Articles and Chapters

“NGOization revisited: Feminist Mobilizations Amidst Organizational, Resource, and Strategic Challenges”, in: Analize. Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies 18(32) 2023, 38-50. 

“Geschlechterpolitische Zeitenwende in den USA” (Turn of an Era in US Gender Politics). In: Femina Politica 32(1), 2023, 116-120.

“Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions” (with P. Meier und B. Sauer), in: Lang, Sabine/ Meier, Petra/ Sauer, Birgit (eds.) Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions. London/New York: Palgrave/Macmillan 2023, pp.1-28. 

“From Party Quotas to Parity? Legislative Representation in Germany at a Crossroads”, (with Petra Ahrens) in: Lang, Sabine/ Meier, Petra/ Sauer, Birgit (eds.) Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions. London/New York: Palgrave/Macmillan 2023, pp. 93-112.

“Leading from Behind? Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era” (with Petra Ahrens and Phil Ayoub). In Ahrens, Petra/Ayoub, Phillip/Lang, Sabine (eds.) Leading From Behind. Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era. London/New York: Routledge 2023, pp. 1-19.

“Angela Merkel and the CDU Quota Curse” (with Petra Ahrens) in Ahrens, Petra/Ayoub, Phillip/Lang, Sabine (eds.) Leading From Behind. Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era. London/New York: Routledge 2023, pp. 40-58. 

“Marginalised or Mainstreamed? Gender in the 2021 German Federal Election”. In: Ross Campbell/ Louise Davidson-Schmich (eds.) The 2021 German Election, Palgrave/Macmillan 2023, pp. 385-403.

“Financing Gender Equality: Budgets for Women’s Policies in German and Austrian Länder” (with Birgit Sauer and Ayse Dursun). German Politics and Society 40 (1) 2022, 1-26.

“Angela Merkel and the CDU Quota Curse” (with Petra Ahrens) in German Politics 31(1) 2022, 40-58.

“Leading from Behind? Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era” (with Petra Ahrens and Phil Ayoub). In German Politics 31(1) 2022, 1-19. 

“The Reluctant Modernizer: Gender Equality in Unified Germany”, in: Michael Oswald/John Robertson (eds.) The Legacy and Impact of German Unification – the Elusive Dream of ‘Flourishing Landscapes’. London” Palgrave/Macmillan 2022, pp. 249-266.

Email: salang@uw.edu