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Journal of Women, Politics & Policy @jwpp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From our special issue: Can female legislators be loyal party members AND represent women's interests under autocracy? This analysis of Morocco's parliament (2011-2021) says yes—especially when autocrats promote gender reforms. More at tinyurl.com/4xr7vshm @shalaby12.bsky.social #morocco

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Party Discipline and Women’s Substantive Representation in Autocracies

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...

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Journal of Women, Politics & Policy @jwpp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

From our special issue: Women’s political exclusion often begins before election day. In Japan’s local politics, opaque party endorsement works as an “invisible barrier,” constraining women’s agency through discretionary gatekeeping long before voters reach the ballot.  tinyurl.com/3m7ztwj8

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Pre-Electoral Party Gatekeeping as an Invisible Barrier to Women’s Local Representation in Japan

Candidate recruitment is vital to democratic gatekeeping, yet Japan’s party endorsement (kōnin) remains opaque and discretionary. This article argues that opaque and discretionary endorsement proce...

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Journal of Women, Politics & Policy @jwpp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

From our special issue: Autonomous women's organizations inside parties boost female leadership — but ideology matters. Analyzing 54 parties across Latin America (1990–2025), the authors find this effect holds only in centrist parties. Ideology shapes who gets to lead. tinyurl.com/372ud7ha

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Who Gets to Lead? Organizational Structures and Women’s Leadership in Latin American Parties

Why do women lead some political parties and not others? This article examines the organizational and institutional factors shaping women’s access to party leadership in Latin America. Drawing on a...

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Journal of Women, Politics & Policy @jwpp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Check out the guest editors' intro to our new special issue! Through Latin American, African, and Asian cases, we see that women’s reduced agency w/in parties is structural. The special issue reveals how to resist these formal and informal restrictive institutions. tinyurl.com/5ff2pdf7

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Political Parties and Women’s Agency: Old Challenges and New Trends: Editors’ Introduction

With cases in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, the articles in this special issue expand our understanding of women’s representation. The contributions demonstrate that women’s reduced agency withi...

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Journal of Women, Politics & Policy @jwpp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Gender-based discrimination experiences are linked not only to women’s rights activism, but also anti-racist, labor, & environmental activism--suggesting that feminist consciousness coming from lived injustice can translate into cross-issue political solidarity. Full article: tinyurl.com/ynss5nr7

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From Injustice to Solidarity: Linking Gender-Based Discrimination Experiences to Cross-Issue Political Engagement

While prior research links discrimination experiences to higher levels of political engagement among women, it remains unclear whether such engagement extends beyond in-group advocacy and how the n...

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Journal of Women, Politics & Policy @jwpp.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Through a 1979-2021 dataset and case studies of Ursula von der Leyen, Catherine Day, and Christine Lagarde, Müller and Tömmel explore women’s pathways to EU leadership: factors that must be in place for access to leadership positions, and gender inequalities that persist. tinyurl.com/5n8r9uzn

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Journal of Women, Politics & Policy @jwpp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Bauer et al. explore the connections between candidate gender, feminist identities & emotional engagement in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. Results suggest women candidates may not increase emotional engagement of feminists in future elections. tinyurl.com/5n895unx #feminist #elections

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Candidate Gender, Feminist Identities, and Emotional Engagement During Political Campaigns

We test how the presence of women candidates in the 2020 Democratic primary increased levels of emotional engagement among feminists. We use an original three-wave panel data collection. We find th...

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Journal of Women, Politics & Policy @jwpp.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

EU official interviews re: Sweden's 2014 Feminist Foreign Policy & its 2022 repeal show a largely positive view of Swedish gender equality leadership. But post FFP, Sweden is not seen as *the* leader of EU gender equality, with less active/visible leadership. Full article: tinyurl.com/yz829a6e

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Normative Leadership Lost? Gender Equality in the EU and the Rise and Demise of Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy

With the introduction of its Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) in 2014, Sweden cemented its position as a normative leader on gender equality. In 2022, however, the new government rescinded the FFP. Ba...

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Journal of Women, Politics & Policy @jwpp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

To what extent did policies in Germany, Canada & Finland mirror feminist calls for a care-led #COVID19 recovery? Even countries well-positioned to follow feminist recommendations did not uniformly do so. Only one took steps towards a #CaringEconomy. Full article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....