Laura Huber
Biographic Data
| ID | 4380604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Huber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Huber |
| SIGNATURE | HUBER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8141-793X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Peace through equality: Exploring the cross-national micro-foundations of the gender equality-peace nexus
Does individual-level support for women's rights decrease tolerance of political violence cross-nationally? While some research demonstrates that support for women's rights decreases support for political violence, this relationship has not been explored globally. Using the World Values Survey, we demonstrate that individuals supportive of women's rights view political violence and terrorism as less acceptable, confirming prior findings. Yet, thi…
Reaching across the political aisle: Overcoming challenges in using social media for recruiting politically diverse respondents
More than monoliths: The gendered dynamics of support for torture in the United States
The gender gap in support for political violence is one of the most consistent findings in foreign policy literature. Beyond gender, an individuals’ gender ideologies may also impact their reactions to terrorism and their support for torture. While support for masculine honor culture increases anger after terrorism as a perceived threat, neosexism dampens anger as violence is normalized. Yet both gender ideologies support the torture of suspected…
Public Perceptions of Women Peacekeepers in Troop Contributing Countries
A belief that women's representation increases legitimacy informs United Nations peacekeeping policies and the foreign policy agendas of many states. However, we do not know how women's participation alters support for UN peacekeeping within troop contributing countries. Based on gender stereotypes, the public may assume that women peacekeepers indicate that peacekeeping missions are more legitimate, which may increase support. Yet, if women peac…
Blue First and Foremost: Female Descriptive Representation, Rape, and the Justice Gap
The degree to which female political actors influence policy is hotly debated in political science. However, relatively little research considers how women’s representation in the police influences policing outcomes. We argue that increasing women’s representation should be associated with increases in rape report rates but should not be associated with changes in rape arrest rates. We expect public perceptions of female police to affect victims’…
Banning sex: Who pays the price? The effects of zero-tolerance policies on female peacekeepers
The contested zero-tolerance policy of the United Nations (UN) regulates sexual relations between peacekeepers and civilians while on mission. Though the policy is intended to protect civilians from sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), many have argued, conversely, that it exacerbates their precarity and undermines female sexual agency. This study pushes these debates further by examining how sexual regulatory frameworks endorsed by the UN direct…
One Step Forward, One Step Back: The Micro-Level Impacts of Conflict on Women's Security
Despite conflict's violent and deleterious impacts, scholarship increasingly demonstrates that women's political rights at the macro-level increase after conflict. However, relatively less is understood about how conflict impacts women's security at the micro-level, especially regarding how it impacts men's and women's attitudes toward intimate partner violence. While conflict can challenge traditional gender roles that justify wife beating, it a…
Putting A Fresh Face Forward: Does the Gender of a Police Chief Affect Public Perceptions
As the public, policymakers, and scholars increasingly call for police reform, one commonly proposed solution is to increase the number of female officers and leaders under the assumption that female police will be perceived as more trustworthy, less violent, and more effective at addressing gendered crimes. Using a survey experiment, we explore whether there is a link between passive representation in police leadership and civilians’ perceptions…
The Perspective Matters: A Multi-informant Study on the Relationship Between Social–Emotional Competence and Preschoolers’ Externalizing and Internalizing Symptoms
Deepening the Conversation: Feminism, International Policing and the WPS Agenda
Scholarship on international police reform and Women, Peace and Security (WPS) has flourished in the last decade and the potential for engagement across these two bodies of literature is promising. Given the increased use of police personnel in international peace missions and emphasis on gender mainstreaming policies, the need for assessing the impact of these two trends has never been greater. Thus, this paper seeks to bridge gaps between the m…
When Civilians Are Attacked: Gender Equality and Terrorist Targeting
While scholars demonstrate a consistent negative relationship between gender equality and violence, the effect of women’s rights on the quality of terrorism and the type of victims targeted remains unexplored. This article introduces a new model of terrorists’ strategic targeting by examining the trade-off between the ease of a civilian-oriented attack and the negative public reaction these attacks invoke. Within this framework, gender equality i…
The internationalization of security sector gender reforms in post-conflict countries
With the passing of several UN Security Council Resolutions related to Women, Peace and Security, gender balancing security sector reforms (SSR)—or policies that ensure the equal participation of women in the security sector—have received increased global attention over the past two decades. However, to date, there is no explanation for variation in their adoption. This paper examines the internationalization of SSR gender reform, arguing that th…
The internationalization of security sector gender reforms in post-conflict countries
With the passing of several UN Security Council Resolutions related to Women, Peace and Security, gender balancing security sector reforms (SSR)—or policies that ensure the equal participation of women in the security sector—have received increased global attention over the past two decades. However, to date, there is no explanation for variation in their adoption. This paper examines the internationalization of SSR gender reform, arguing that th…
Putting A Fresh Face Forward: Does the Gender of a Police Chief Affect Public Perceptions
As the public, policymakers, and scholars increasingly call for police reform, one commonly proposed solution is to increase the number of female officers and leaders under the assumption that female police will be perceived as more trustworthy, less violent, and more effective at addressing gendered crimes. Using a survey experiment, we explore whether there is a link between passive representation in police leadership and civilians’ perceptions…
When Civilians Are Attacked: Gender Equality and Terrorist Targeting
While scholars demonstrate a consistent negative relationship between gender equality and violence, the effect of women’s rights on the quality of terrorism and the type of victims targeted remains unexplored. This article introduces a new model of terrorists’ strategic targeting by examining the trade-off between the ease of a civilian-oriented attack and the negative public reaction these attacks invoke. Within this framework, gender equality i…
Blue First and Foremost: Female Descriptive Representation, Rape, and the Justice Gap
The degree to which female political actors influence policy is hotly debated in political science. However, relatively little research considers how women’s representation in the police influences policing outcomes. We argue that increasing women’s representation should be associated with increases in rape report rates but should not be associated with changes in rape arrest rates. We expect public perceptions of female police to affect victims’…
Deepening the Conversation: Feminism, International Policing and the WPS Agenda
Scholarship on international police reform and Women, Peace and Security (WPS) has flourished in the last decade and the potential for engagement across these two bodies of literature is promising. Given the increased use of police personnel in international peace missions and emphasis on gender mainstreaming policies, the need for assessing the impact of these two trends has never been greater. Thus, this paper seeks to bridge gaps between the m…
One Step Forward, One Step Back: The Micro-Level Impacts of Conflict on Women's Security
Despite conflict's violent and deleterious impacts, scholarship increasingly demonstrates that women's political rights at the macro-level increase after conflict. However, relatively less is understood about how conflict impacts women's security at the micro-level, especially regarding how it impacts men's and women's attitudes toward intimate partner violence. While conflict can challenge traditional gender roles that justify wife beating, it a…
The internationalization of security sector gender reforms in post-conflict countries
With the passing of several UN Security Council Resolutions related to Women, Peace and Security, gender balancing security sector reforms (SSR)—or policies that ensure the equal participation of women in the security sector—have received increased global attention over the past two decades. However, to date, there is no explanation for variation in their adoption. This paper examines the internationalization of SSR gender reform, arguing that th…
The Perspective Matters: A Multi-informant Study on the Relationship Between Social–Emotional Competence and Preschoolers’ Externalizing and Internalizing Symptoms
Deepening the Conversation: Feminism, International Policing and the WPS Agenda
Scholarship on international police reform and Women, Peace and Security (WPS) has flourished in the last decade and the potential for engagement across these two bodies of literature is promising. Given the increased use of police personnel in international peace missions and emphasis on gender mainstreaming policies, the need for assessing the impact of these two trends has never been greater. Thus, this paper seeks to bridge gaps between the m…
When Civilians Are Attacked: Gender Equality and Terrorist Targeting
While scholars demonstrate a consistent negative relationship between gender equality and violence, the effect of women’s rights on the quality of terrorism and the type of victims targeted remains unexplored. This article introduces a new model of terrorists’ strategic targeting by examining the trade-off between the ease of a civilian-oriented attack and the negative public reaction these attacks invoke. Within this framework, gender equality i…
Banning sex: Who pays the price? The effects of zero-tolerance policies on female peacekeepers
The contested zero-tolerance policy of the United Nations (UN) regulates sexual relations between peacekeepers and civilians while on mission. Though the policy is intended to protect civilians from sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), many have argued, conversely, that it exacerbates their precarity and undermines female sexual agency. This study pushes these debates further by examining how sexual regulatory frameworks endorsed by the UN direct…
One Step Forward, One Step Back: The Micro-Level Impacts of Conflict on Women's Security
Despite conflict's violent and deleterious impacts, scholarship increasingly demonstrates that women's political rights at the macro-level increase after conflict. However, relatively less is understood about how conflict impacts women's security at the micro-level, especially regarding how it impacts men's and women's attitudes toward intimate partner violence. While conflict can challenge traditional gender roles that justify wife beating, it a…
Putting A Fresh Face Forward: Does the Gender of a Police Chief Affect Public Perceptions
As the public, policymakers, and scholars increasingly call for police reform, one commonly proposed solution is to increase the number of female officers and leaders under the assumption that female police will be perceived as more trustworthy, less violent, and more effective at addressing gendered crimes. Using a survey experiment, we explore whether there is a link between passive representation in police leadership and civilians’ perceptions…
Public Perceptions of Women Peacekeepers in Troop Contributing Countries
A belief that women's representation increases legitimacy informs United Nations peacekeeping policies and the foreign policy agendas of many states. However, we do not know how women's participation alters support for UN peacekeeping within troop contributing countries. Based on gender stereotypes, the public may assume that women peacekeepers indicate that peacekeeping missions are more legitimate, which may increase support. Yet, if women peac…
Blue First and Foremost: Female Descriptive Representation, Rape, and the Justice Gap
The degree to which female political actors influence policy is hotly debated in political science. However, relatively little research considers how women’s representation in the police influences policing outcomes. We argue that increasing women’s representation should be associated with increases in rape report rates but should not be associated with changes in rape arrest rates. We expect public perceptions of female police to affect victims’…
Reaching across the political aisle: Overcoming challenges in using social media for recruiting politically diverse respondents
More than monoliths: The gendered dynamics of support for torture in the United States
The gender gap in support for political violence is one of the most consistent findings in foreign policy literature. Beyond gender, an individuals’ gender ideologies may also impact their reactions to terrorism and their support for torture. While support for masculine honor culture increases anger after terrorism as a perceived threat, neosexism dampens anger as violence is normalized. Yet both gender ideologies support the torture of suspected…
Peace through equality: Exploring the cross-national micro-foundations of the gender equality-peace nexus
Does individual-level support for women's rights decrease tolerance of political violence cross-nationally? While some research demonstrates that support for women's rights decreases support for political violence, this relationship has not been explored globally. Using the World Values Survey, we demonstrate that individuals supportive of women's rights view political violence and terrorism as less acceptable, confirming prior findings. Yet, thi…
Gender, Security, and Conflict (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)