Introduction: Gender Politics and Party Regulation. Quotas and Beyond

Biezen, Ingrid van; Rashkova, Ekaterina R.

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“…Notwithstanding their increasingly diffuse and potential impact, this form of political representation policy (Mazur 2001) has received very little attention thus far, especially by academics (but see Childs 2013; Kayuni and Muriaas 2014; Ohman 2018; van Biezen and Rashkova 2013). We know little about why and how these measures have been adopted in different countries, how they work in practice, and, most importantly, what effects they have on party behavior and political representation more generally.…”

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Promoting Gender Equality through Party Funding: Symbolic Policies at Work in Italy

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Given the growing importance of state subsidies as a source of party income, several countries have introduced policies that link the provision of party funding to the promotion of gender equality in political representation. Variations in the assignment of public funding—that is, financial incentives and cuts—are increasingly employed to promote equal gender participation in intraparty politics and in public office. However, we know little about why and how these equality promotion policies have been adopted in different countries, how they work in practice, and, most importantly, what effects they have on women's representation. To contribute to this debate, after embedding gender-targeted public funding regulations in the broader set of political representation policies and presenting a comparative overview of existing rules in the European Union, the article concentrates on the Italian case. We examine the evolution of Italian regulation of gender electoral financing and the extent to which the Italian parties have complied with the rules over time. The results show that this set of policy instruments, when poorly designed, is nothing more than symbolic policy. The lack of appropriate mechanisms for sanctions and rewards, which can induce parties to change their behavior, has hampered the effectiveness of these policy measures.

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Promoting Gender Equality through Party Funding: Symbolic Policies at Work in Italy

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“…Biezen and Rashkova, 2012), among party members (e.g. Biezen and Piccio, 2013) or even among opportunities for future change, for example in the equality of gender representation (Biezen and Rashkova, 2014a).…”

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The legal regulation of political parties: Contesting or promoting legitimacy?

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International Political Science Review

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Recent waves of social protests have brought a renewed interest in the notion of political legitimacy. The increasing adoption of party regulation as a means to secure legitimacy, however, leads to several paradoxes. One such paradox is the fact that those who establish the rules about political parties are representatives of the political parties themselves. Despite this existing contention, the relationship between political legitimacy and party regulation has received little scholarly attention. Addressing this relationship, our special issue brings together articles that seek to answer questions about the potential and actual effects of legal rules. Drawing on rich empirical evidence, the underlying message of the contributions is that while rules are important, they do not give the whole story. After presenting the research included in the volume, we emphasise that regulation in itself does not necessarily promote political legitimacy. Therefore the adoption of additional rules, whether to constrain or liberate party behaviour, is not sufficient to legitimise those in power. Rather, we argue that the more important factor to consider is that of implementation.

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Reclaiming party politics research

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In a 2021 Special Issue in European Political Science, Anika Gauja and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen review the sub-field of party politics research. In doing so, they argue party politics scholarship reflects the broader development of the political science discipline, illustrating the evolving relationship between politics researchers and the organisations they study. In this reply, we argue that the party politics sub-field reflects the wider discipline in another crucial respectit continues to marginalise gender politics scholarship. We demonstrate that a gendered lens fundamentally transforms key questions in the field around what party politics scholars study, and how and why they conduct their research, with relevant consequences for whose work is included. In failing to engage with this scholarship, "mainstream" party politics scholars are (re)producing unequal power relations and hierarchies within the discipline, whilst also depriving themselves of the capacity to address fully key questions of representation, democracy, continuity and change.

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Introduction: Gender Politics and Party Regulation. Quotas and Beyond

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Promoting Gender Equality through Party Funding: Symbolic Policies at Work in Italy

Promoting Gender Equality through Party Funding: Symbolic Policies at Work in Italy

The legal regulation of political parties: Contesting or promoting legitimacy?

Reclaiming party politics research

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