UNTWIST

Title: Policy recommendations to regain feminist losers as mainstream voters (UNTWIST)

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Start date: February 2023
Funding: Horizon Europe - Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, 2021-2027) within the funding line "HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01 (Protecting and nurturing democracies)
Collaborative partners: Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla (coordinator), Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto Entidad Religiosa, Tarsadalomtudomanyi Kutatokozpont Budapest, Roskilde Universitet, Fundacio Vit - Visualizacion per a la Transparencia, Association of European Citizen Science - ECSA E.V., Saarland University

Contents: UNTWIST investigates the question of whether extreme populist parties use and fill a gap in the political spectrum that has emerged in the recent past: Do these parties actually have the potential to represent the population that has been let down by current mainstream feminist discourses? Or have mainstream parties not yet found a suitable strategy for responding to gender-related conflicts? Against the background of these questions, new political strategies are to be developed and implemented in order to counteract the anti-gender politics of parties on the extreme (and especially right-wing) fringe.

A major goal of UNTWIST is thus to enable (non-radical/populist) parties in Europe to adequately represent gender-specific interests in the population. The work package conducted at Saarland University under the direction of Prof. Dr. Daniela Braun examines the role of political parties and their thematic positioning in this context.

News

First issue of the UNTWIST newsletter published

The UNTWIST project has published the first issue of its newsletter. The topics of this issue:

Who are we? We introduce you to our 9 national teams and the 7 institutions involved in an advisory capacity, as well as our objectives related to the UNTWIST project.
What are we currently working on? We will present the first results and findings on what and how much attention the different gender-specific needs and requirements receive from society, political parties and academia. We also analyse the way in which radical right-wing populist parties address gender-specific issues that may be overlooked by other moderate actors.
What's new? We will introduce you to our international UNTWIST survey, with which we will conduct innovative measurements of gender-specific needs and demands from an intersectional perspective that simultaneously takes into account the voting behaviour of citizens.

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UNTWIST at the DVPW Congress in Göttingen

From 24 to 27 September, the congress of the German Political Science Association on “Politics in the Polycrisis” took place at the Georg August University in Göttingen. Dr Giuseppe Carteny gave a presentation titled “From Top to Bottom: Explaining the relationship between elite polarisation and mass polarisation”.

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UNTWIST at the European Conference on Politics and Gender

In July 2024, the UNTWIST teams participated in the European Conference on Politics and Gender in Cologne and presented a panel with research findings related to a better understanding of gender dynamics in voting for radical right-wing populist parties. Prof Dr Daniela Braun and Dr Giuseppe Carteny presented the following paper:

The salience of gender-related issues in European party manifestos

UNTWIST auf der EPSA-Konferenz

Vom 4. bis zum 6. Juli fand die jährliche Konferenz der European Political Science Association im MediaPark Köln statt. Dr. Giuseppe Carteny stellte auf der Konferenz UNTWIST im Rahmen seines Vortrags mit dem Titel „The salience of gender-related issues in European party manifestos“ vor. Der Vortrag thematisierte das Geschlechtergefälle in der europäischen Politik und untersuchte die Rolle politischer Parteien bei der Betonung geschlechtsspezifischer Themen. Die Ergebnisse aus dem UNTWIST-Projekt zeigen, dass geschlechtsspezifische Themen an Bedeutung gewonnen haben, diese aber vom nationalen Kontext abhängen und zwischen etablierten Parteien und rechtspopulistischen Parteien unterschiedlich behandelt werden.

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