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Cecilia Josefsson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University in Sweden. Her recent book, 'Defending Status Quo: Adaptive Resistance Electoral Gender Quotas,' published by Oxford University Press in 2024, received the 2025 Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for its contribution to the field of women's politics. The book develops the concept of adaptive resistance to analyze how male political elites in Uruguay strategically responded to repeated attempts to adopt gender quota laws. Cecilia's research primarily focuses on political institutions and representation from a gender perspective in diverse contexts such as sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Scandinavia. Her work has been published in several esteemed journals including Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, International Political Science Review, and Parliamentary Affairs. Cecilia earned her PhD in Government from Uppsala University in 2020, and her dissertation was awarded the 2023 Joni Lovenduski PhD Prize by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). Currently, she is investigating gender in political leadership in Sweden and the resistance to gender-equitable institutional change following crises.
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