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Anne Van Bavel reviews 'Gender and Violence Against Political Actors' by @elinbja.bsky.social & @parzetterberg.bsky.social. This edited volume highlights the theoretical and methodological tools scholars use to study gendered violence in politics.
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@angietorres.bsky.social reviews "The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics of War" by Robert Trager & Joslyn Barnhart. The book employs historical case studies to connect women's votes to their nations' foreign policy.
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Bookcover for "Women, Men, and Elections: Policy Supply and Gendered Voting Behaviour in Western Democracies" by Rosalind Shorrocks.
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@anacweeks.bsky.social reviews 'Women, Men, and Elections' by Rosalind Shorrocks. The book explores how gendered policy preferences can explain gender gaps in voting.
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Book cover for "Female Youth in Contemporary Egypt: Post-Islamism and a New Politics of Visibility" by Dina Hosni
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Wafaa Dawoud reviews "Female Youth in Contemporary Egypt" by Dina Hosni. The book explores the new political and social consciousness of young women in the post-2011 uprising Egypt.
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Book cover for "Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources" by Inna Perheentupa
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Olga Sasunkevich reviews 'Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia' by Inna Perheentupa. The book offers a "nuanced and context-sensitive understanding of politics" through its ethnography of feminist politics i…
Notes from the field article: "Feministizising Policymaking in Practice: How Gender and Politics Scholarship Inspires Government Policy, and Vice Versa" by Tània Verge. Introduction begins: If a Ministry of Equality and Feminisms were created from scratch in the government of your country or region, would you accept leading it? In May 2021, when asked by the just-invested Prime Minister of the Government of Catalonia, I answered, “Yes, I do.” It was a big question, and the task ahead was even bigger, but a close friend helped me kill the vertigo. She said, “Years of gender and politics research, consultancy work, and social activism should do,” while adding that being accorded great leeway to build up a team of social movement activists, feminist academics, and party feminists with experience in executive office was a unique opportunity to bolster feminist change..
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Tània Verge reflects on her time as a feminist scholar turned Minister of Equality and Feminisms in Catalonia in her piece "Feministizising Policymaking in Practice."
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Notes from the field article: "Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates: The Case of Abortion Rights in the United States and Latin America" by Anna Calasanti, Cora Fernández Anderson and Tamara Kay. Introduction begins: We have spent the last two years conducting fieldwork on abortion rights movements in the United States and Latin America, building from our previous work on abortion policies, movements, organizations, and activists across the Americas (Beisel and Kay 2004; Calasanti 2015; Calasanti, Kay, and Ostermann 2023; Fernández Anderson 2017, 2020, 2022; Ruibal and Fernández Anderson 2018). In the wake of the 2022 US Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, we have noted a palpable shift in the dynamics between organizations, new challenges in establishing contacts, and a heightened need to safeguard participants’ identity. "
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@acalasanti.bsky.social, Cora Fernández Anderson & @tamkay.bsky.social outline how field research on abortion rights movements has changed in and outside of the U.S. post-Dobbs in "Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates"
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In "The Effects of Empathic Reactions to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade on Campaign Participation and Voter Turnout" Cigdem V. Sirin and José D. Villalobos link group empathy to support for the Democrats in 2022.
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Research article "When Councillors Sexually Harass: Legislative Sanctions and Gender-Based Violence in Canada’s Municipalities" by Tracey Raney, R. Michael McGregor and Cameron D. Anderson. Abstract begins: Previous research has examined whether voters will punish candidates who engage in sexual harassment in national-level elections, revealing partisanship as a strong predictor of electoral punishment. Using original survey data, we evaluate whether the public supports a broader range of sanctions (e.g. apologies, training, and removal from office) that legislatures can impose upon politicians who perpetrate sexual harassment in Canada’s municipalities, a non-partisan context. In the absence of partisan-based motivated reasoning, we find that women are more likely than men to support the removal from office of a councillor who engages in sexual harassment.
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@traceyraney.bsky.social, Michael McGregor & Cameron Anderson look to non-partisan municipal elections in 🇨🇦 to understand the tolerance of sanctions for sexual harassment when partisanship is not at play.
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In "Tradition Meets Democracy" @kerrynbaker.bsky.social and co-authors look to the role of traditional and nontraditional gender norms in structuring women's political participation in 🇼🇸.
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Research article entitled "Women’s Legislative Representation and Human Rights Treaty Ratification" by Kaitlin Senk, Nicholas M. Coulombe and Jessica Edry. Abstract begins: Do recent increases in women’s representation around the world have implications for international relations? We argue that greater representation of women in legislatures increases the likelihood of human rights treaty ratification for two reasons. First, given their shared gendered experiences of exclusion and discrimination, women legislators will advocate on behalf of marginalized groups on an international scale as transnational surrogate representatives. Second, women legislators may be more inclined to prioritize the ratification of human rights treaties because these treaties align with their domestic policy preferences, which aim to support marginalized groups.
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In "Women’s Legislative Representation and Human Rights Treaty Ratification" Kaitlin Senk, Nicholas Coulombe & Jessica Edry locate substantive representation outside of domestic politics.
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In "Comparing Gendered Exposure and Impact in Online Election Violence",
Malin Holm, @elinbja.bsky.social, & @parzetterberg.bsky.social investigate candidate experiences of gendered election violence in 🇹🇳.
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Research article entitled "Gender, Issue Stereotypes, and the Electoral Returns to Distributive Politics in the United States" by Brian T. Hamel and Nichole M. Bauer. Abstract begins: Elected officials can often successfully increase voter support in their district by “bringing home the bacon,” yet theory suggests that the electoral effects of such efforts may depend on the legislator’s gender and whether the legislator delivered benefits in a stereotypically feminine (e.g., healthcare) or masculine (e.g., agriculture) issue area. Using both observational and experimental data in the United States, we find weak, limited evidence that issue area conditions the electoral impact of credit claiming for legislators of either gender. In addition, we show that men and women are rewarded comparably when they secure benefits for their district, regardless of issue area.
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@brianhamel.bsky.social & Nichole Bauer investigate the link between gendered issue types and successful credit claiming in "Gender, Issue Stereotypes, and the Electoral Returns to Distributive Politics in the United States."
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Research article entitled "Gender, Religion, and Political Violence: Lessons from Muslim Women’s Experiences in UK Elections" by Parveen Akhtar, Anne Jenichen and Hannah Intezar. Abstract begins: Violence against women in politics is on the rise, threatening political achievements with respect to equality. Little research, however, has been conducted on the experiences of women from minority communities. This article, therefore, takes an intersectional approach to explore how gender, religion, and other categories of difference intersect when it comes to Muslim women’s experiences in the UK. Based on a longitudinal case study of Bradford West during the 2015, 2017, and 2019 general elections that combines participant observations, qualitative interviews, and a Twitter analysis, we argue that, in addition to the violence often experienced by women,
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Parveen Akhtar, Anne Jenichen & Hannah Intezar demonstrate how violence against women in politics is different for Muslim women running for office in the 🇬🇧 in "Gender, Religion, and Political Violence"
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Research Article "Job Talk: Candidate Gender and Presentation of Prior Experience in Television Ads in the US" by Eric R. Hansen and Connor Mautner. Abstract begins: Does gender influence how candidates in the United States present their prior political experience to voters? Messaging one’s experience might demonstrate a history of power-seeking behavior, a gender role violation for women under traditional norms. As a result, men should be more likely to make experience-based appeals than women candidates. For evidence, we analyze the contents of 1,030 televised advertisements from 2018 state legislative candidates from the Wesleyan Media Project. We find that ads sponsored by experienced men are significantly more likely to highlight experience than ads sponsored by experienced women. However, we find that women’s and men’s ads are roughly equally likely to discuss work experience, suggesting that men’s greater emphasis on experience is limited to prior officeholding.
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In "Job Talk: Candidate Gender and Presentation of Prior Experience in Television Ads in the US" Eric Hansen & Connor Mautner analyzes how candidate gender affects the presentation of experience in campaign adds.
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Research article entitled "Politics without Presence? The Symbolic Representation of Trans People in Germany and the Netherlands" by Anne Louise Schotel and Liza Mügge. Abstract begins: Historically, trans people have been excluded from politics. Despite political under representation, trans interests increasingly appear on the political agenda in the Netherlands and Germany. In 2021, trans women were elected to the Dutch and German parliaments for the first time. However, increased trans visibility is accompanied by backlash and transphobia. The political representation of trans people does not follow a familiar pattern from elected descriptive representatives to increased substantive representation of interests. What mechanisms shape the political representation of trans people? We argue that symbolic representation shapes possibilities for descriptive and substantive representation of trans people.
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In "Politics without Presence?" @alschotel.bsky.social & @lizamugge.bsky.social pair qualitative text analysis with in-depth interviews to understand trans symbolic representation in 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇱 parliaments.
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Books cover for "Sex is as sex does - governing transgender identity" by Paisley Currah.
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@sjangevine.bsky.social reviews 'Sex Is as Sex Does' by @paisleycurrah.com . The book asks "what is sex to the state" in its exploration of transgender legislation and its links to fights for gender equality.
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Book cover for "Feminism in Latin America - Pro-choice Nested Networks in Mexico and Brazil" by Gisela Zaremberg and Debora Rezende de Almeida.
Book cover for"Fighting for abortion rights in latin america - social movements, state allies and institutions" by Cora Fernandez Anderson.
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Mariela Daby reviews two books that examine the state of reproductive rights in Latin America and the role of feminist movements in the expansion of abortion rights in the region.
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Book cover for "Walking the Gendered Tightrope - Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as Legislative Leaders" by Melissa Haussman and Karen M. Kedrowski.
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Farida Jalalzai reviews 'Walking the Gendered Tightrope' by Melissa Haussman & @KarenKedrowski. The book investigates the leadership tenures of Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi and the gendered challenges they faced while navigating crisis.
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Notes from the field article entitled "Gender and Politics Research as a Tool for Societal Change: Lessons from the United Kingdom" by Rosie Campbell, Minna Cowper-Coles, Alesha De-Freitas, Mona Morgan-Collins and Øyvind Skorge.
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In "Gender and Politics Research as a Tool for Societal Change" @profrosiecamp.bsky.social, Minna Cowper-Coles and co-authors draw on their experiences from the 🇬🇧 context to outline pathways to impact change.
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Book cover for "Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa" edited by Amanda Gouws.
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Georgina Waylen review 'Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa' edited by Amanda Gouws. The book details feminists' first-hand experiences with national gender machineries in 🇿🇦.
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Critical perspectives article entitled "A Comparative Approach to Explaining Gender Disparities in Asian American and Asian Canadian Politics" by Fan Lu.
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In "A Comparative Approach to Explaining Gender Disparities in Asian American and Asian Canadian Politics" Fan Lu argues for a comparative approach to studying the participation of Asian women in 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 politics
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Notes from the field "Women and the Constitutional Politics of Care in Ireland" by Erica Dobbs. Introduction begins: In 1937, Eamon de Valera, president of Ireland and founder of the country’s largest party, Fianna Fáil, introduced a draft of a proposed new constitution. Although not all Irish voters were convinced that this was necessary, seeing as the existing constitution was enacted only fifteen years prior, the section on the family quickly caught the attention of the public. In what came to be known as the “care clause” of the family section, Article 41.2 asserted that “the State recognizes that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved. The state shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.”
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Erica Dobbs contextualizes the March 2024 🇮🇪 referendum known as the care amendment in "Women and the Constitutional Politics of Care in Ireland."
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Critical perspective article entitled "Construing “Disability” into Article 14(2)(C) of the Maputo Protocol" by Adetokunbo Johnson.
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Adetokunbo Johnson looks to locate African women with disabilities in the regional charter in "Construing “Disability” into Article 14(2)(C) of the Maputo Protocol."
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Critical perspectives article entitled "Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK" by Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, Dan Godshaw, Rima Saini.
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Neema Begum, @mikebankole.bsky.social , @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social , @dangodshaw.bsky.social & Rima Saini introduce the concept of paradoxical representation to understand the actions of ethnic minority officeholders
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Critical perspectives article entitled "Anti-Trans Attacks: Interrogating “Gender” in Politics and Gender Scholarship" by Zein Murib.
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@zeinmurib.bsky.social argues for the reconsideration of how gender is conceptualized and operationalized in political science in light of the increased legislative attacks on trans rights in the 🇺🇸.
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Critical Perspectives Article entitled "Feminist Democratic Design and the Redress of Intersectional Representational Problematics" by Karen Celis and Sarah Childs. Introduction: If one were to write the history of representation from an intersectional perspective, it would read as a veritable comedy of errors. A story, in short of inclusion and exclusion, privileging and marginalization, and of good, mis-, poor, and non-representation. No facet of politics is untouched by these dynamics – whether civil society or formal political participation, political recruitment and leadership, or policy and legislation (Siow 2023).
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Karen Celis & @profsarahchilds.bsky.social outline their concept of Feminist Democratic Design as a way to redress problematics of representation.
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Critical perspectives article entitled "Intersectional Identity and Representative Politics" by Nadia E. Brown, Christopher J. Clark, Anna M. Mahoney, Orly Siow and Michael G. Strawbridge.
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@brownphdgirl.bsky.social , @drorlysiow.bsky.social , @mjstrawbridge.bsky.social and co-authors introduce a critical perspectives on intersectionality and centering the margins in political science research
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Research article entitled "Whitewashing Women Voters: Intersectionality and Partisan Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election" by Chaerim Kim and Jane Junn. Abstract begins: Due to the concern about relatively small samples, it has been conventional in previous research to analyze women voters together as a group. However, viewing women as a monolith results in ‘whitewashing,’ obscuring variation at the intersection of race and gender in partisan vote choice. Utilizing the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey (CMPS), we disaggregate women voters by race and ethnicity and analyze the significance of a host of factors that contribute to partisan vote choice, with particular attention to the role of attitudes about race (i.e., “racial resentment”) and gender (i.e., “hostile sexism”) on support for Donald Trump in 2020.
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In 'Whitewashing Women Voters' Chaerim Kim and Jane Junn investigate how the intersectional positionality of race and gender affect reasons for voting for 🇺🇸 presidential candidates in 2020
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Research article entitled 'All the President’s Women? Female Leaders, Family Ties, and Gendered Cabinet Appointments Worldwide' by Yanjun Liu and Zezhong Wang. Abstract begins: This study investigates the nexus between the rise of female leaders and the appointment of women to cabinets and how family ties, crucial for women’s political ascendance, impact these appointments. Using a unique dataset across 160 countries from 1966 to 2021, we find that female leaders generally appoint more women to their cabinets and key cabinet roles. However, this effect is significantly moderated by the “Goldilocks” principle, defined by the nature of a leader’s family ties. Specifically, female leaders with moderate family ties are most likely to appoint women. In contrast, their counterparts from political dynasties and those without familial political ties are less inclined to do so.
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In 'All the President’s Women?' Yanjun Liu & Zezhong Wang utilize a unique dataset to investigate the role of family ties in the appointment of female cabinet ministers by female leaders.
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