Gender-related issues, party appeals and politicization

Abstract

How do parties and legislators act to appeal to women, and which political issues are more likely to appeal to men or women? How are gender-related issues politicized by left- and right-wing political parties? This panel combines two comparative studies on (West) European countries, as well as single country studies on the USA, Germany and Uruguay to address these questions. The papers investigate (1) whether the gender of a party leader and the share of women in a party affect how parties target women in their manifestos, (2) how women’s suffrage affected legislative behavior in US states, (3) how political parties position themselves on gender equality issues, (4) the politicization of gender-related issues across different institutional contexts, and (5) the degree to which left and right parties’ issue emphases align with the policy priorities of men and women voters.

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More Than Symbols: How Women's Representation Shapes Parties' Electoral Appeals to Female Voters	View Paper Details
Manifesto? Gendered Patterns of Programmatic Issue Congruence in Western Europe	View Paper Details
Do Voting Rights Matter? Legislative Consequences of Women's Suffrage	View Paper Details
Positional Polarization of Established and Emerging Gender Equality Issues Among German Political Parties.	View Paper Details
The politicisation of feminist and LGBT+ issues in electoral contexts: a case study from Uruguay	View Paper Details