How and why does regime type impact far-right mobilization? Most of our knowledge about the far right comes from studies of Western democracies, leaving far-right mobilization in hybrid regimes und...

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 22 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02577-3Analyses of data from more than 3,000 adolescents found that loneliness and desire for thinness contribute to the higher prevalence of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among girls than in boys. Young people’s perspectives informed the pathways that were investigated.

Do female legislators exhibit more party discipline in autocratic regimes? How does party discipline affect the representation of women’s interests? Work has provided mixed evidence on women’s subs...

Women’s representation in European local governments remains stagnant at around one-third of councillors. One explanation for this longstanding gender gap relates to structural barriers blocking th...

Socio-economic background profoundly shapes electoral participation, with early-life economic hardship significantly dampening political engagement. Y…

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Abstract. This book investigates women’s involvement as members of populist radical right (PRR) parties. The latter have long been characterised as ‘men’s

This analysis of 1.2 million policy documents from 185 countries identifies global inequalities in whose knowledge is cited in policymaking. Governments in the Global South rely more on foreign source...

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Abstract. This paper examines the authorship of postpublication criticisms in the scientific literature, with a focus on gender differences. Bibliometrics from journals in the natural and social scien...

Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems - Volume 120 Issue 2

Can exposure to harmful acts committed by other groups obstruct meaningful confrontation with one’s own group history? This paper explores the extent to which favourable inter-group comparison — the i...

More social, less material, more influenced by family ties: Why young women join political parties

By Amanda Clayton, University of California, Berkeley, Diana Z. O’Brien, Washington University in St. Louis, and Jennifer M. Piscopo, Royal Holloway University of London Gender quotas are used to elect most of the world’s legislatures. Still, critics contend that quotas are undemocratic, eroding institutional legitimacy. We examine whether quotas diminish citizens’ faith in political decisions and decision-making processes.

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Does gender matter for how we engage with green political ideas? Using more than twenty years of data across 36 European countries, this paper identif…

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ximena Caló, covers the new article by Amanda Clayton, [...]

Perceptions of Feminism as a Threat

Gender Bias in Legislative Oversight: Do Parliamentarians Control Women Ministers More Tightly than Men Ministers? - Volume 56