Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have women's policy agencies been able to develop, maintain or enhance their roles in the transformed political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.

CHRISTINA BERGQVIST Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden MARIA BUSTELO Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain KAREN CELIS Department of Management Science, Hogeschool Gent, Belgium ALESSIA DONÀ Lecturer in Public Policy Analysis and Comparative Politics, University of Trento, Italy MARILA GUADAGNINI Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Turin, Italy ANNE MARIA HOLLI Research Fellow (Academy of Finland), Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, Finland SABINE LANG Assistant Professor of European Studies, H.M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA JONI LOVENDUSKI Anniversary Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK AMY MAZUR Professor, Department of Political Science, Washington State University, USA DOROTHY E. MCBRIDE Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University, USA PETRA MEIER Lecturer, Politics Department, Antwerp University, Belgium JANTINE OLDERSMA Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands TANJA OLSSON BLANDY Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden CANDICE D. ORTBALS Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA DIANE SAINSBURY Professor Emeritus, Stockholm University, Sweden BIRGIT SAUER Professor of Political Science, Departmentof Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria MARIAN SAWER Professor of Political Science, Australian National University, Australia