ABSTRACT
While most research on gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia (CEE&E) has been qualitative, this chapter argues that quantitative methodology can offer an important toolkit for collecting, systematizing, and analyzing empirical evidence. As illustrated in research outside of the region, quantitative research can enhance the quality and scope of gendered analysis of complex multilevel phenomena and processes, such as gender politics, accounting for complex structural and individual factors of oppression and agency in a single study. The chapter highlights two emerging quantitative subfields in the study of gender in CEE&E: (1) institutions and institutional change, and (2) public opinion, with the latter including some experimental research. Scholars have been hamstrung by the communist regimes’ lack of interest in gendered quantitative analysis and the limited availability of high-quality quantitative data in the postcommunist period, but there is a critical need for expanding the application of quantitative methods, especially to capture intersectionality.
