Framing Identity Politics: Right-Wing Women as Strategic Party Actors in the UK and US
In: Journal of women, politics & policy, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 91-118
ISSN: 1554-4788
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In: Journal of women, politics & policy, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 91-118
ISSN: 1554-4788
In: Intergenerational justice review, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 60-67
ISSN: 2510-8824
Promoting youth representation in parliaments is a growing global priority. To promote youth leadership and more inclusive politics, youth organizations in Nigeria mobilized successfully for a constitutional reform to lower the eligibility age to run for political office. In this paper, we draw on global data to assess whether lower eligibility ages will in fact lead to higher levels of youth participation. We find that lower age requirements positively affect the representation of the youngest and next youngest cohorts in parliament. We draw on qualitative interviews and gender literature to theorize that lower age limits have immediate and longer-term "mobilizing effects", shifting the calculations of potential candidates in terms of the age at which they first decide to run for office.
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 22, Heft 5, S. 620-630
ISSN: 1460-3683
The political representation of women and ethnic minorities has received growing attention among political parties around the world. Focusing on the British case, we map data and debates concerning the selection of female and minority candidates, highlighting the simultaneous and interactive role of gender and race in shaping citizens' opportunities to stand for and win election. Utilizing data from the Labour Party, our analysis illustrates the implications of distinct strategies to include members of politically marginalized groups—as well as provides evidence for the potential of "tandem quotas" to result in positive outcomes for minority women. Taken together, these findings suggest the need for stronger measures on the part of Labour to encourage the selection of minority candidates; a shift from "single-axis" to "multiple-axis" thinking when devising strategies to enhance group representation; and rejection of a "zero-sum" mentality regarding the nomination of female and minority candidates.
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 22, Heft 5, S. 620-630
ISSN: 1354-0688
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 115-135
ISSN: 1460-2482
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 82, Heft 3, S. 1156-1160
ISSN: 1468-2508
Studies on political knowledge routinely find that women have lower levels of political knowledge than men. This gender gap in political knowledge is usually interpreted as troublesome for democracy, because a lack of political knowledge could imply that women's participation in politics is less effective and that their interests will be represented less well than those of men. In this short article, we present a direct test of the assumption that women are less effective voters because of this lack of political knowledge. We make use of CSES data to study gender differences in proximity voting and correct voting. Our results do not suggest that women vote less correctly than men—a conclusion that prompts important questions about the role of different forms of political knowledge, and the seemingly gendered nature of the vote choice.
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