Women's Parties: A New Party Family

Abstract

Women's parties have a unique and important role to play in the representation of women and women's issues and interests. They are neither a new nor a rare phenomenon and have emerged in a variety of contexts across time and space. And yet we know relatively little about them. This article argues that women's parties matter and that the study of women's parties matters. We contend that women's parties constitute a discrete party family; while there is a diverse range of women's parties, they can be viewed as a coherent group with similar origins, ideology, and naming patterns. This article offers the first research framework for the comparative study of women's parties. Building our knowledge of women's parties, we argue, is important for those interested in gender and politics, particularly those concerned with the representation of women's issues and interests.

Candidaturas Coletivas: Uma Nova Forma de Interação entre Movimentos Sociais e Partidos Políticos

“…Não basta, porém, mirar nos movimentos. Os partidos políticos são diferentes em termos de infraestrutura organizacional e dos espaços intrapartidários criados para os movimentos sociais (Della Porta et al, 2017) e os grupos minorizados -gênero e raça, especialmente -e essas distinções podem ser reveladores das potencialidades e limites da interação (Araújo, 2009;Campos, Machado, 2020;Cowell-Meyers, 2014;Cowell-Meyers, Evans, Shin, 2020;Norris;Lovenduski, 1995). A distinta inclusão de grupos no sistema político é uma dimensão não desenvolvida nos estudos sobre participação no país, com raras exceções (Lüchmann, Almeida, Gimenes, 2016).…”

The Gender Cleavage: Updating Rokkanian Theory for the Twenty-First Century

“…However, conflicts related to gender have not, for the most part, been explicitly integrated into the theory. While the potential existence of a gender cleavage has sometimes been debated, denied, or implied (e.g., Aardal and Valen 1989;Brooks, Nieuwbeerta, and Manza 2006;Cowell-Meyers, Evans, and Shin 2020), the gender cleavage has not been adequately grounded in historical analysis. This article seeks to develop Rokkanian cleavage theory by conceptualizing the gender cleavage as fully fledged cleavage.…”