Description
Gendering Party Politics examines the relationship between gender, institutions, and political parties through a feminist institutionalist lens, advancing new theoretical, methodological, and empirical directions for party politics scholarship. Contributors synthesize two decades of research, introduce foundational concepts and frameworks, present innovative methods and global empirical cases, and evaluate whether (and how) parties can be changed to promote gender equality. Together, these contributions highlight the wide-ranging relevance of feminist institutionalist perspectives for research on political parties, democracy, and representation.
Table of Contents
List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Gender, parties, and institutionsElin Bjarnegard and Meryl KennyPart One: Concepts2. Between party democracy and parity democracyPetra Meier, Sabine Lang, and Birgit Sauer3. Gender and political ambitionLouise Davidson-Schmich4. The leaky pipeline of politicsZahra Runderkamp and Meryl Kenny5. Gender, newness, and party system changeKaren Beckwith6. Political parties and roots of resistance to gender-equitable changeCecilia JosefssonPart Two: Methods and Cases7. Preventing and handling violence in Danish political partiesKarina Kosiara-Pedersen8. Young women aspirants and gendered ageism in Nigeria's political partiesOmomayowa O. Abati and Mayowa M. Adeniji9. Collective candidate strategies and diverse representation in BrazilMalu A.C. Gatto and Kristin N. Wylie 10. Women's institutional belonging and self-making in a right-wing party in IndiaProma Raychaudhury11. Quantifying gender and immigrant bias in Swedish candidate selectionMichal Grahn12. Green parties and gender equality in the European ParliamentPetra Ahrens and Johanna Kantola13. Women's parties as agents of contagionKimberly Cowell-MeyersPart Three: Transforming Political Parties14. From feminization to feministization through party gender action plansTania Verge15. Gender sensitizing political parties and the feminist academic critical actorSarah Childs16. Exploiting empowerment in Lebanon's sectarian political partiesCarmen GehaConclusion17. Looking back, moving forward: editors' conversation with Joni Lovenduski and Pippa NorrisJoni Lovenduski, Pippa Norris, Elin Bjarnegard, Meryl KennyReferencesIndex
