ragnhild.muriaas@uib.no

Ragnhild Louise Muriaas is a Professor of Political Science. Her research focus is the interaction between gender and politics, with a particular focus on representation, political careers and political financing. She is currently the project leader of a ERC project (consolidator) titled SUCCESS Gender-Gap in Political Endurance: a novel political inclusion theory (2021-2026). The project builds a dataset on gender gaps in political seniority and conducts fieldstudies in Algeria, Italy, France, and Norway. The article Gender and Political Seniority: Three measures (2023) published in Politics and Gender demonstrates the large size of gender gaps in political seniority across 9 established democracies (1965-2021). The article is featured in ECPR's The Loop with the title "Male MPs still get it all". Since Autumn 2023 Ragnhild Muriaas has served as scientific coordinator of the Norwegian Panel of Elected Representatives. From August 2022 to July 2023 she is a visiting scholar at Science Po (Paris) at LIEPP (Fall) and Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, CEE (Spring). Her work has appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, African Affairs, Political Studies and International Political Science Review. Professor Muriaas is the editor of Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective (2020) - with Vibeke Wang and Rainbow Murray and she has written the book Manipulating Political Decentralization: Africa's Inclusive Autocrats (2018) with Lovise Aalen. From 2017 to 2021 she was research dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences and from 2018 to 2022 she was the leader of the board at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) at the University of Bergen.

Malawi, Cabo Verde, Ghana, Gender, Policy Reform, Democracy, Elections, Autocracy