• Formal and Informal Institutions: Key Challenges in Analysis and Transformation – Georgina Waylen, University of Manchester

• Looking Local: Sub-national Institutions and Policies on Violence Against Women – Vivien Lowndes, University of Birmingham; Francesca Gains, University of Manchester

• New Rules for the World’s Women? Power, Agency and UN Women – Fiona S. Mackay, University of Edinburgh

• Formal Change, Informal Legacies: The Impact of Gender Quotas in Ireland – Leah Culhane, University of Manchester

• Merit in Cabinet Appointment? Informal Rules and Womens Ministerial Recruitment – Claire Annesley, University of Sussex; Karen Beckwith, Case Western Reserve University; Susan Franceschet, University of Calgary

Chair

• Vivien A. Schmidt, Boston University

Discussant

• S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University