Gender: Politics and Public Policy

A Virtual Special Issue from West European Politics

Since the publication of a special issue on Women and Politics in Western Europe (Volume 8, Issue 4, 1985), edited by Sylvia Bashevkin, a few years after the launch of West European Politics, the journal has developed into an important outlet for scholarly work on gender, politics and public policy in Europe. The present virtual special issue provides free access to ten important recent contributions that investigate how gender shapes European politics and public policy.

**The below articles are free-access via this page until 30 April 2020.**

Article Title	Author(s)	Volume	Issue	Year
Has the gender gap in voter turnout really disappeared?	Filip Kostelka, André Blais & Elisabeth Gidengil	42	3	2019
Gender, populist attitudes, and voting: explaining the gender gap in voting for populist radical right and populist radical left parties	Niels Spierings & Andrej Zaslove	40	4	2017
Adult roles and the gender gap in political knowledge: a comparative study	Monica Ferrín, Marta Fraile & Gema M. García-Albacete	42	7	2019
Still men’s parties? Gender and the radical right in comparative perspective	Silvia Erzeel & Ekaterina R. Rashkova	40	4	2017
Gendered electoral systems in the French Sénat	Robert Urbatsch	39	4	2016
How do gender quotas affect public support for women as political leaders?	Peter Allen & David Cutts	41	1	2017
Representing their own? Ethnic minority women in the Dutch Parliament	Liza M. Mügge, Daphne J. van der Pas & Marc van de Wardt	42	4	2019
Gender, right-wing populism, and immigrant integration policies in France, 1989–2012	Kimberly J. Morgan	40	4	2017
The birth, life, and death of policy instruments: 35 years of EU gender equality policy programmes	Petra Ahrens	42	1	2018
Policy Advocacy in Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Performance on Gendering Executive Attention	Claire Annesley, Isabelle Engeli, Francesca Gains & Sandra L. Resodihardjo	37	5	2014

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