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Ideology and Party Positions on Gender Issues in Spain: Evidence from a Novel Data Set
Autor(es)
Materia
Political parties
Gender issues
Party positions
Manifestos
Spain
Clasificación UNESCO
5905.06 Partidos Políticos
5905.02 Comportamiento Político
Fecha de publicación
2023
Editor
Cambridge University Press
Citación
Cabeza Pérez, L., Alonso Sáenz de Oger, S., & Gómez Fortes, B. (2023). Ideology and Party Positions on Gender Issues in Spain: Evidence from a Novel Data Set. Politics & Gender, 19(4), 1204–1230. doi:10.1017/S1743923X23000338
Resumen
[EN]This article introduces new quantitative fine-tuned indicators to objectively measure parties’
preferences on gender issues. We assess the validity and reliability of these new empirical indicators
by analyzing the relationship between ideology and gender position in decentralized Spain. With data
collected by the Regional Manifestos Project, that for the first time has incorporated a fully-fledged
gender domain in its coding scheme to content-analyze regional manifestos, we analyze parties'
gender positions in four fundamental dimensions: welfare and labor market; violence; representation;
and values and identity. Results suggest that there is a persistent left-right divide on the last three
dimensions: Spanish left-wing parties score significantly higher than right-wing and regionalist
parties. However, ideology does not drive parties’ gender positions on welfare and labor market.
Support for gender equality policies in this dimension is widespread to such an extent that this can be
considered a ‘valence issue’: all parties, irrespective of their ideology, endorse the same —positive—
position
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ISSN
1743-923X
DOI
10.1017/S1743923X23000338
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