Research
Books
2018. Teele, Dawn. Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Replication files.
Prize: Gregory Luebbert Prize for the Best Book in Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association 2020.
Reviews: Journal of Economic Literature 2022 ; Perspectives on Politics 2020 ; Comparative Politics 2020 ; Democratization 2020 ; Journal of Modern History 2020 ; Women’s History Review 2019.
2014. Teele, Dawn (ed.). Field Experiments and Their Critics: Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experiments in the Social Sciences. Yale University Press.
Review Symposium: Perspectives on Politics 2017.
2020. Shames, Shauna, Rachel Bernhard, Mirya Holman, and Dawn Teele (eds.). Good Reasons to Run: Women and Political Candidacy. Temple University Press.
Prize: Selected as CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020.
Reviews: Gender & Society 2022 ; Perspectives on Politics 2021 ; Politics & Gender 2021 ; Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 2021.
Articles
Smith, Daniel M., Alexandra Cirone, Dawn Teele, Gary W. Cox, and Jon H. Fiva. “Gender Gaps and Hidden Majoritarianism in Proportional Representation Systems.” American Political Science Review, conditional acceptance.
2025. Teele, Dawn. “Women’s Suffrage: Causes and Consequences.” Annual Review of Political Science, in press.
2024. Teele, Dawn. “The Political Geography of the Gender Gap.” Journal of Politics, 86(2): 428-42. Appendix.
2023. Teele, Dawn. “Gender and the Impact of Proportional Representation: A Comment on the Peripheral Voting Thesis.” American Political Science Review, 117(2): 759-766. Replication Files.
2021. Bernhard, Rachel, Shauna Shames, and Dawn Teele. “To Emerge? Breadwinning, Motherhood, and Women’s Decisions to Run for Office.” American Political Science Review, 115(2): 379-394. Replication Files.
Honorable Mention Elsie Hillman Prize for the Study of Women and Politics, 2018.
2021. Samuels, David and Dawn Teele. “New Medium, Same Story: The Gender Gap in Book Publishing.” PS: Political Science & Politics, 54(1): 131-140. Replication Files.
2020. Teele, Dawn. “Women and The Vote.” Daedalus, 149(1): 25–39. Good for Undergraduate Teaching.
2019. Bateman, David and Dawn Teele. “A Developmental Approach to Historical Causal Inference.” Public Choice, 185: 253-279.
2018. Teele, Dawn, Joshua Kalla, and Frances Rosenbluth. “The Ties that Double Bind: Social Roles and Women’s Under Representation in Politics.” American Political Science Review, 112(3): 525-541. Replication Files.
Featured on MPSA’s video blog.
2018. Teele, Dawn. “How the West Was Won: Competition, Mobilization, and Women’s Enfranchisement in the United States.” Journal of Politics, 80(2): 442-461. Replication Files.
2018. Kalla, Joshua, Frances Rosenbluth, and Dawn Teele. “Are You my Mentor? A Field Experiment on Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Self-Starters.” Journal of Politics, 80(1): 337-341. Replication Files.
2017. Teele, Dawn and Kathleen Thelen. “Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics, 50(2): 433-437.
See Monkey Cage, 30-May-17.
See Inside Higher Ed’s Chronicle of the debate.
See Symposium “Gender in the Journals, Continued” in PS: Political Science and Politics.
2014. Teele, Dawn. “Ordinary Democratization: The Electoral Strategy that Won British Women the Vote.” Politics & Society, 42(4): 537-561.
See Monkey Cage, 1-Nov-15.
UK’s Democratic Audit, 23-Nov-15.
Book Chapters
2025. Tudor, Carissa and Dawn Teele. “Modernization and Gender Equality? It’s Complicated.” In Handbook of Political Economy, edited by Daron Açemoglu and James Robinson. North Holland, in press.
2023. Lipkin, Sophia and Dawn Teele. “Ethics and the Study of Gender and Corruption.” In Handbook on Gender and Corruption in Democracies, edited by Tiffany D. Barnes and Emily Beaulieu, 161-173. Elgar Publishing.
2022. Teele, Dawn and Pauline Grosjean. “In Search of Gender in Historical Political Economy.” In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, edited by Jeffery A. Jenkins and Jared Rubin, 713-732. Oxford University Press.
2021. Teele, Dawn. “Virtual Consent: A Bronze Standard for Experimental Ethics.” In Advances in Experimental Political Science, edited by James N. Druckman and Donald P. Green, 130–46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2020. Teele, Dawn. “What’s Wrong with Replicating the Old Boy’s Networks?” In The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science, edited by Colin Elman, John Gerring, and James Mahoney, 403–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2019. Bernhard, Rachel, Mirya Holman, Shauna Shames, and Dawn Teele (eds.). “Beyond Ambition.” A symposium on the limits of the “ambition” frame for understanding representation, in Politics, Groups and Identities: 7(3).
2014. Teele, Dawn. “Reflections on the Ethics of Field Experiments.” In Field Experiments and Their Critics, edited by Dawn Teele, 115-40. Yale University Press.
Book Reviews and Newsletters
2023. Teele, Dawn. “Review of: Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy.” By Ana Catalano Weeks. Perspectives on Politics.
2021. Teele, Dawn. “Review of: A Century of Votes for Women.” By Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder. Perspectives on Politics.
2020. Teele, Dawn. “Review of: Disenfranchising Democracy. By David A. Bateman Political Science Quarterly.
2020. Teele, Dawn. “Review of: All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women.” By Kaitlin N. Sidorsky. Perspectives on Politics 18(1).
2019. Teele, Dawn. “Resisting the Americanization of Comparative Politics.” Newsletter of APSA Comparative Politics Section: 29(1). Read.
Working Papers
Callis, Anna, Dawn Teele, and Guadalupe Tuñón. “Compulsory Voting and Gender Equality in Participation.”
Brie, Evelyne and Dawn Teele. “The Myth of the Traditional Gender Gap.” Under Review.
Datasets
Database of Women in Parliamentary Parties in 40 countries, 1900-2012.
City-level Dataset of Urban Political Machines in the United States, 1890-1950. find it here.
State level membership in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 1884-1919. find it here.
By-Election Returns in the British Parliament, 1906-1918.