Gender Equality in Politics

Petra Ahrens is a Senior Researcher at the ERC funded research project “Gender, party politics and democracy in Europe: A study of European Parliament’s party groups” (EUGenDem) at Tampere University, Finland. She works on gender equality policies and politics in the European Union and Germany, gendered power relations and political strategies like gender mainstreaming, and on civil society organisations and participatory democracy. She is the author of Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Other recent publications include the co-edited volume (with Lise Rolandsen Agustín) Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies, and Practices (Rowman&Littlefield), and (together with Anna van der Vleuten) “Fish Fingers and Measles? Assessing Complex Gender Equality in the Scenarios for the Future of Europe” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2019. Katja Chmilewski is a PhD Student at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, where she has been working as a Junior Researcher since 2015. She currently holds a Marietta Blau scholarship funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science. Her research fields include theories of affect, social movements and political mobilization, health care politics, as well as gender and politics. Recent publications include: Mobilizing affects about intimate relationships – Emotional pedagogy among the New Right in Germany in Kolehmainen, Marjo/Juvonen, Tuula (eds.): Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships. New York/ London: Routledge 2018, together with Katharina Hajek. Sabine Lang is a Professor of European and International Politics at the University of Washington, USA, where she directs the Center for West European Studies and is Chair of the European Studies Program. She has published widely in the area of gender and politics with a focus on participation in political institutions. Her latest co-edited volume with Jill Irvine and Celeste Montoya was published in 2019 with Rowman & Littlefield, titled Gendered Mobilizations and Intersectional Challenges. Other recent publications include “Gender Equality in Post-Unification Germany: Domestic Diffusion and EU-Level Pressures”, German Politics 4, 2017, 556-573, and “Gender Quotas in Germany: Diffusion, Derailment, and the Quest for Parity Democracy”, in: Eléonore Lépinard/Ruth Maria Rubio (eds.) Transforming gender citizenship: The irresistible rise of gender quotas in Europe, Cambridge University Press 2018, pp. 279-307.Birgit Sauer is a Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. She has participated in several international research co-operations and projects on gender, migration, racism and right-wing populism. Recently she conducted two research projects on state transformation and affective governmentality. She was director of the graduate school “Gender, Violence andAgency in the Era of Globalisation” (GIK) at the University of Vienna. Her research fields include gender and governance, gender and politics, feminist state and democratic theory, politics, affects and emotions, and right-wing populism. Recent publications include: Affective governmentality: A feminist perspective, in: Hudson, Christine/Rönnblom, Malin/Teghtsoonian, Katherine (eds.): Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis. Missing in Action?, London/New York: Routledge 2017, pp. 39-58, together with Otto Penz; and Populism and the Web. Communicative Practices of Parties and Movements in Europe, London: Routledge 2017 (ed. together with Mojca Pajnik).

• Introducing the Cross-National Comparison of Quotas.- Contextualizing Quotas: The Political Systems of Germany and Austria.- The History of Electoral Gender Quotas.- The Post-Quota Gender Gap: Standard Explanations.- Institutional Quota Roadblocks on the Federal Level.- Institutional Quota Roadblocks on the Land Level.- Conclusion: The Long Road to Parity in Politics.