Camila MONTERO

Camila Montero is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). She has been a visiting researcher at the Department of Political Science of the University of Barcelona and at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London. Her research lies at the intersection of political parties, gender and politics, and political representation.

Her work examines how internal party structures shape women’s access to political power, with a particular focus on intra-party democracy, candidate selection, and leadership recruitment. Drawing on feminist institutionalism, she studies how formal rules interact with informal practices inside party organizations, and how these dynamics affect women’s political careers. Methodologically, her research combines large-N comparative analyses using party-level datasets with qualitative approaches, including interviews and case studies.

Her work has been presented at major international conferences such as EPSA, ECPR, and ECPG, and published in peer-reviewed journals including Party Politics and the British Journal of Political Science.

She has been involved in the research project “Can a woman do the job?”, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, which investigates gender stereotypes and leadership evaluations. Her broader academic interests include gender quotas, party organization, and political leadership in comparative perspective.

CV

• PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Innsbruck (since 2022)
• Research Assistant, project “Can a woman do the job?”, University of Innsbruck (2022–2024)
• Visiting Researcher, University of Barcelona & King’s College London (2023–2024)

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