Women’s role in promoting environmental issues: Evidence from 19 industrialized democracies
Party positions towards green politics are one of the key explanatory factors for the environmental performance of industrialized democracies (Jahn 2016). Far beyond simply grouping individuals with similar ideological positions, parties constitute the platform for debates about policy positions and priorities that are later on presented to the electorate (Key 1942; Teorell 1999). Previous research emphasizes the explanatory power of party-level factors such as party ideology or electoral vulnerability for party positions towards the environment (Carter 2013; Spoon et al. 2014; Farstad 2018). In my contribution to the book “Parties, Institutions and Preferences: The Shape and Impact of Partisan Politics” edited by Erik Baltz, Sven Kosanke, and Susanne Pickel, I aim to contribute to a better understanding of the conditions under which parties emphasize green issues by revealing the role of the sex of the actors involved in the party decision-making process (this is Part 2 of our series on the book, follow this link to Part 1). In a nutshell, I engage with the question: How do party positions concerning green and growth policies change as women’s presence in party offices increases?… Read More Women’s role in promoting environmental issues: Evidence from 19 industrialized democracies