ABSTRACT
This entry maps out a new area of policy studies, Feminist Comparative Policy (FCP), that seeks to answer the highly complex questions of if, how, and why contemporary, Western, post-industrial democracies are feminist by focusing on the interface between gender politics and the state. The analysis first examines the approach, research community, and infrastructure of FCP up to 2000, and then turns to a discussion of more recent developments since 2000 through nine international FCP projects with a particular focus on the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State.
