Francesca Gains

Francesca Gains publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesca Gains sits on this spectrum.

Francesca Gains D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesca Gains sits on this spectrum.

Research.com Recognitions

• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

• The Core Executive: Gender Power and Change

  Claire Annesley;Francesca Gains

  161
  Citations

• Path Dependency and the Reform of English Local Government

  Francesca Gains;Peter C. John;Gerry Stoker

  151
  Citations

• Delivering ‘Public Value’: Implications for Accountability and Legitimacy

  Francesca Gains;Gerry Stoker

  106
  Citations

• Executive Agencies in Government: The Impact of Bureaucratic Networks on Policy Outcomes

  Francesca Gains

  103
  Citations

• How is Institutional Formation Gendered, and Does it Make a Difference? A New Conceptual Framework and a Case Study of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales

  Francesca Gains;Vivien Lowndes

  92
  Citations

• Acceptable difference: Diversity, representation and pathways to UK politics

  Catherine Durose;Liz Richardson;Ryan Combs;Christina Eason

  91
  Citations

• Special advisers and the transmission of ideas from the policy primeval soup

  Francesca Gains;Gerry Stoker

  88
  Citations

• Does Leadership Matter

  F Gains;S Greasley;P John;G Stoker

  70
  Citations

• Women and New Labour : engendering politics and policy?

  Claire Annesley;Francesca Gains;Kirstein Rummery

  65
  Citations

• Investigating the Economic Determinants of the UK Gender Equality Policy Agenda

  Claire Annesley;Francesca Gains

  41
  Citations

• The profile of gender equality issue attention in Western Europe

  Claire Annesley;Isabelle Engeli;Francesca Gains

  36
  Citations

• The Impact of Political Leadership on Organisational Performance: Evidence from English Urban Government

  Francesca Gains;Stephen Greasley;Peter John;Gerry Stoker

  28
  Citations

• The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women’s Rights Around the World: by Mala Htun and S. Laurel Weldon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018,350 pp., ISBN: 978-1-108-405546-1, £74.99 (hbk), £22.99 (pbk), $24.00 (ebook)

  Francesca Gains

  28
  Citations

• ELITE ETHNOGRAPHIES: POTENTIAL, PITFALLS AND PROSPECTS FOR GETTING ‘UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL’

  Francesca Gains

  25
  Citations

• What Do Bureaucrats Like Doing? Bureaucratic Preferences in Response to Institutional Reform

  Francesca Gains;Peter John

  21
  Citations

• Metro Mayors: Devolution, Democracy and the Importance of Getting the ‘Devo Manc’ Design Right

  Francesca Gains

  21
  Citations

• Can Cameron Capture Women's Votes: the Gendered Impediments to a Conservative Majority in 2015

  Claire Annesley;Francesca Gains

  18
  Citations

• Implementing Privatization Policies in ‘Next Steps’ Agencies

  Francesca Gains

  15
  Citations

• Gender, Actors and Institutions at the Local Level: Explaining Variation in Policies to Address Violence against Women and Girls

  Francesca Gains;Vivien Lowndes

  8
  Citations

• Identifying the Institutional Micro-Foundations of Gender Policy Change: A Case Study of Police Governance and Violence against Women and Girls

  Francesca Gains;Vivien Lowndes

  7
  Citations