RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Theorising gender voting gaps through Gender Positional Deprivation.
T2 Do ‘losers of feminism’ vote for right-wing populist parties?
T2 Paper prepared for “Seminarios del IPP” -- Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos, CSIC Madrid, 27 September 2023
A1 Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia María
A1 Ortiz Barquero, Pablo
A1 Zambrana Pérez, Rafael
K1 Right-Wing Populist Parties
K1 Gender gap
K1 Losers of globalization
K1 Losers of feminism
K1 Voting behaviour
K1 Vox
AB This paper presents a theoretical framework to help us understand voting for Right-Wing Populist Parties (RWPP) in a gendered way, including an explanation for the gender gap and why women vote for this kind of party. Women's vote for RWPP is considered a puzzle due to these parties' antigender discourse (among others, Dietze & Roth, 2020a; Spierings, 2020) and the subsequent assumption of scholars that women voting for RWPP vote against their own female interests. Most existent theories explain much better why men vote for RWPP than they can explain female vote.We aligned with the policy review Past, Present and Future of Democracy (European Commission, 2019: 10), which pointed out that "it is above all the electoral success of mostly right-wing populism which challenges the liberal dimension of representative democracies", and see the increasing electoral success of RWPP as the "organisational manifestations of a significant discontent of citizens" in which socioeconomic polarisation progressively intertwines with issues of cultural identity (20). The role of RWPP in channelling dissatisfaction with democracy, however, may have both negative and positive effects.The publication asks for better research on key aspects, particularly identifying the structural causes underlying RWPP's increasing electoral success. But critically, this policy review (European Commission, 2019), as most of the current literature, fails to recognise gender as a particular dimension of partisan competition, polarisation or as an explanatory variable of voting behaviour, even though the notable gender gap in voting for RWPP is rightly pointed out. We affirm that voting for RWPP cannot be satisfactorily explained if the gender gap is not thoroughly accounted for.
YR 2023
FD 2023-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/16611
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/16611
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NO This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101060836.Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA) under the powers delegated by the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.A previous version of this paper was presented at Political Behaviour Colloquium (European UniversityInstitute, June 6, 2023). We thank all the participants for their valuable feedback
NO Texto revisado y actualizado de "Theorising gender voting gaps. Do 'feminism losers' vote for right-wing populist parties? " http://hdl.handle.net/10433/16588
NO Sociology Department - Pablo de Olavide University
NO Paper prepared for “Seminarios del IPP” Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos, CSIC Madrid, 27 September 2023
DS RIO
RD May 24, 2026