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Biography
Dr Kerryn Baker is a Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU. She has a BA(Hons) in International Relations from Victoria University of Wellington and a PhD in Political Science from the ANU. She has research experience in the French Pacific, Papua New Guinea (including Bougainville), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. She had published in leading journals including Pacific Affairs, Government and Opposition, Australian Journal of Political Science, Representation, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies and Political Science on issues of political participation, electoral reform and women’s political representation. Her book Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands was published by University of Hawaii Press in 2019 and she is the co-editor (with Marian Sawer) of Gender Innovation in Political Science: New Norms, New Knowledge (Palgrave, 2019).
Research interests
Elections and Electoral Reform; Women's Political Representation; Politics in the Pacific Islands Region
Qualifications
Expertise Areas
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
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Network (past 5 years)
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Village democracy in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Aspinall, E., Baker, K., Hicken, A. & Wiltshire, C.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/23 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Support for Research on Women's Leadership and Decision Making (Pacific)
Haley, N., Baker, K., Corbett, J., Harrison, G. & Zubrinich, K.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID
14/06/13 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
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‘Copper and solar’: the gendered politics of service delivery in Solomon Islands
Baker, K., 2022, In: Third World Quarterly. 43, 4, p. 864-878Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Localising Global Norms: The Case of Family-Friendly Parliaments
Palmieri, S. & Baker, K., 2022, In: Parliamentary Affairs. 75, 1, p. 58-75Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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The 2019 Bougainville Referendum and the Question of Independence: From Conflict to Consensus
Regan, A., Baker, K. & Cintra Oppermann, T., 2022, In: Journal of Pacific History. 57, 1, p. 58-88Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Melodrama, fisticuffs and generally aberrant behaviour: Gender, norms of behaviour and workplace culture in the New Zealand Parliament
Baker, K., 2021, In: Australasian Parliamentary Review. 36, 2, p. 130-147Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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The domestic politics of climate change in the Pacific Islands
Barbara, J., Howard, E. & Baker, K., 2021, In: Asia Pacific Viewpoint. onlineResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article