Policy Learning and Transformational Change: University Policies on Sexual Harassment

ABSTRACT

This essay comes out of my experience as an attendee at the #MeTooPoliSci short course in the American Political Science Association meeting in 2018. I use the framework of policy feedback theory to explain the difficulty in reforming sexual harassment policies at universities and prescribe some actions we as scholars can take to improve the situations at our places of employment.

KEYWORDS:

• #MeToo
• sexual harassment in universities
• policy feedback

Acknowledgments

The author is grateful to Nadia E. Brown and the other women who organized and led the #MeTooPoliSci short course at the 2018 American Political Science Association meeting. This manuscript was improved with suggestions from anonymous reviewers, Geoffrey Dancy, and Christopher Fettweis.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.