Are (populist) radical right parties <i>Männerparteien</i>? Evidence from Bulgaria

Rashkova, Ekaterina R.; Zankina, Emilia

doi:10.1080/01402382.2017.1285580

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“…Work on Latin America and Eastern Europe offers mixed results with respect to right parties and women's representation. While some studies show that right-leaning organizations lag behind, others find the left-right distinction to be less meaningful (Hinojosa 2009; Rashkova and Zankina 2017). Despite the different regional focus, this paper may help explain these mixed results.…”

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“Righting” Conventional Wisdom: Women and Right Parties in Established Democracies

O’Brien

2018

Pol & Gen

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Parties are the key actors shaping women's representation in advanced parliamentary democracies. Based on traditional patterns of feminist organizing, conventional wisdom suggests that parties of the left are the strongest advocates for women. Despite the prevalence of this claim, a burgeoning body of work indicates that parties on the right can—and often do—seek to represent women. To address these competing narratives, this article offers the first large-N, party-level study of women's descriptive and substantive representation over place and time. The results suggest that party ideology continues to affect women's representation: right parties lag behind their left counterparts with respect to women's presence in elected office, and right and left parties address women differently on their platforms. At the same time, there is significant heterogeneity among right parties. Christian democrats, for example, are more likely than conservatives to adopt voluntary gender quotas and make policy claims on behalf of women. The traditional left-right distinction is thus too coarse to fully explain party behavior in these states.

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“Righting” Conventional Wisdom: Women and Right Parties in Established Democracies

O’Brien

2018

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“…(Köttig et al. 2017; Rashkova & Zankina 2017; Winter 2010). This masculine image is even more pronounced in the case of radical‐right parties.…”

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‘Pinkwashing’ the radical‐right: Gender and the mainstreaming of radical‐right policies and actions

Ben-Shitrit

Elad‐Strenger

Hirsch-Hoefler

2021

European J Political Res

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Across the globe, women are increasingly more visible as leaders and activists in radical-right parties and movements. Does women's visibility in radical-right politics, both institutionalized and non-institutionalized, affect public acceptance of radical-right agendas? The present paper proposes a 'radical-right gender mainstreaming model', arguing that women in radical-right politics are perceived by the general public through a prism of feminine gender stereotypes, which counteract radical-right parties' and movements' masculine stereotypes, thus 'softening' their image and making them more acceptable to the general public. Across four experimental studies conducted in the Israeli context, we find strong evidence that women's visibility as radical-right parliamentary representatives (Studies 1a and 1b) and as radical-right political activists (Studies 2a and 2b) increases acceptance of and support for these parties' and movements' agenda, particularly among women. We further demonstrate that these effects are mediated by the attribution of feminine stereotypes (warmth) to women versus men political actors. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…Waylen (2008) analyzes how far feminist representation has been improved during democratization. Erzeel and Rashkova (2017) examine whether the radical right parties include women and women's concerns, and Rashkova and Zankina (2017) analyze women in the radical right parties in Bulgaria. Chiva (2018) discusses the role of feminist women's movements and whether they have shaped policy processes during democratization.…”

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The Substantive Representation of Women in Poland

Gwiazda

2019

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This article examines the substantive representation of women in Poland after the 2015 parliamentary elections. By looking at the case of the Black Protests, in which tens of thousands of demonstrators, wearing black, defended women's rights by protesting a proposed total abortion ban, it revisits the existing approaches to substantive representation. Hanna Pitkin's definition is used as a starting point, but then broader questions concerning women's interests, agents, and sites of representation are considered. This article identifies a variety of interests but argues that in Poland, conservative interests dominate in parliament, although feminist interests are voiced too, especially by nonelected agents in extraparliamentary sites. This article makes an important contribution to the research on women's political representation because it deals with unexplored aspects of representation in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Are (populist) radical right parties Männerparteien? Evidence from Bulgaria

Cited by 21 publications

References 28 publications

“Righting” Conventional Wisdom: Women and Right Parties in Established Democracies

“Righting” Conventional Wisdom: Women and Right Parties in Established Democracies

‘Pinkwashing’ the radical‐right: Gender and the mainstreaming of radical‐right policies and actions

The Substantive Representation of Women in Poland

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