Liesl Haas

Biographic Data

ID3846038
NAMELiesl Haas
GIVEN NAMESLiesl
FAMILY NAMEHaas
SIGNATUREHAAS L
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia State University, Long Beach
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS32
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX3

  • Policy Outputs

    Merike Blofield, Liesl HaasCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of gender and…2013

    This article discusses policy outputs on gender equality. First it reviews literature that tries to categorize the policies promoting or reducing gender equality and then takes a look at the different stages of the policy process, where it introduces women’s reproductive capacities, the work–family nexus, and violence against women. The article also takes a look at the efforts of scholars to make the larger dynamics of gender equality more visibl…

  • Response to Lee Ann Banaszak's review of Feminist Policymaking in Chile

    Open AccessLiesl HaasARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2011

    I appreciate Lee Ann Banaszak's thoughtful and insightful comments about my book. As she notes, there is a tendency in the kind of work we both do to focus on specific aspects of the complex policy process; her research on the role of the bureaucracy in policymaking makes her particularly well-positioned to identify the ways that a deeper focus on this area might have contributed to my own analysis of the Chilean case

  • Feminist policymaking in Chile

    Liesl HaasBOOKFeminist policymaking in Chile2010

    Investigates the efforts of feminists in Chile to win policy reforms on a broad range of gender equity issues, from labor and marriage laws to educational opportunities to health and reproductive rights"--Provided by publisher

  • Opposing Currents

    Liesl HaasARTICLEPolitics & Gender2005Cited by: 12

    Opposing Currents: The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America. Edited by Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and María Nieves Rico. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2005. 264 pp. $27.95.This book represents an important contribution to a growing subfield of feminist scholarship. Moving beyond a focus on the traditional policy areas normally associated with women and politics, the authors bring a gender analysis to bear on th…

  • Defining a Democracy

    Open AccessMerike Blofield, Merike Helena Blofield et al.ARTICLELatin American Politics and Society2005Cited by: 15References: 14

    This article evaluates 38 bills seeking to expand women's rights in Chile and finds that the successful ones often originated with the Executive National Women's Ministry (SERNAM), did not threaten existing definitions of gender roles, and did not require economic redistribution. These factors (plus the considerable influence of the Catholic Church) correlate in important ways, and tend to constrain political actors in ways not apparent from an e…

  • Development Programs Where Women Matter

    Open AccessLiesl HaasARTICLEPeace Review2002

    (2002). Development Programs Where Women Matter. Peace Review: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 491-493

  • Revolutionary Evangelicals in Nicaragua

    Christian Smith, Liesl Haas et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1997Cited by: 5

    Christian Smith, Liesl Ann Haas, Revolutionary Evangelicals in Nicaragua: Political Opportunity, Class Interests, and Religious Identity, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 440-454