Understanding male and female voting for Right-Wing Populist Parties, contributions from the UNTWIST project

Abstract

This panel clusters several papers with a central interest in improving our understanding of the dynamic of gender and voting for Right-Wing Populist parties (RWPP). They belong together as part of the UNTWIST project (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101060836) and pertain to its first methodological phase focused on the dynamics of substantive representation of sex- and gender-related needs and demands within representative democracies, intending to locate areas of "weak" gender representation and compare them across parties. The panel includes three international comparative papers, one theoretical paper, and two case studies on Hungary and Spain. First, two cross-sectional comparative papers focus on the six countries analysed within the UNTWIST project: Spain, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Hungary. The first one analyses focus groups carried in those six different countries with voter switchers (having voted for any mainstream party before moving to vote for an RWPP in the last elections). The second one presents a gender analysis of party manifestoes in those six countries, including the previous elections and going back 15 years. These two papers allow us to start exploring the dynamic of gender representation in RWPP compared to mainstream parties. The third longitudinal comparative paper analyses, with data from WVS/EVS, attitudes towards gender roles across European countries and at different points in time to observe what factors explain different views on gender roles in Europe and how these visions are changing. The panel introduces the presentation of a new theoretical proposal, labelled as "Gender Positional Deprivation", trying to make sense of how recent neoliberal transformations have created different classes of winners and losers among men and women, who therefore share different rationales to vote for RWPP. Finally, two case studies in Spain and Hungary deepen the analyses of focus groups, and political parties' discourses and policies.

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