Rethinking Democratic Governance: Gendered Institutions, Representation, and Political Participation

Abstract

This panel aims to rethink democratic governance from the perspective of gendered institutions, representation and political participation. The panel includes both conceptual and empirical papers, the latter including both comparative and single case perspectives. The papers investigate the following topics: how the concept of democratic consolidation could be rethought from a feminist perspective; how intersectionality shapes willingness to participate in citizens assemblies and which factors exert a stronger influence on their willingness to deliberate; how institutional architectures and political opportunity structures shape the form, function and representative capacity of women’s advocacy organisations in different European contexts; how boys’ and girls’ perceptions of political leadership ideas different and these ideal conceptions relate their self-efficacy beliefs; and the position of women within consociational power-sharing systems in the Arab region.

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Navigating Institutional Access and Political Agency: A Comparative Typology of Women’s Advocacy Groups in European Democracies	View Paper Details
Towards a Feminist Reconceptualisation of Democratic Consolidation	View Paper Details
Who deliberates, Who Doesn’t? An Intersectional Analysis of willingness to deliberate.	View Paper Details
Gender and Consociationalism: lessons from Iraq and Lebanon	View Paper Details
The Picture-Perfect Politician : Gender Stereotypes amongst Youth on Political Leadership, Skills and (their own) Imagined Political Futures	View Paper Details