Ideology and party positions on gender issues in Spain: evidence from a novel data set
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2023-07-04
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Cambridge University Press
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This article introduces new quantitative fine-tuned indicators to objectively measure political parties' preferences on gender issues. We assess the validity and reliability of these new empirical indicators by analyzing the relationship between ideology and gender positions in decentralized Spain. Using data collected by the Regional Manifestos Project, which for the first time has incorporated a fully fledged gender domain into its coding scheme for content analysis of regional manifestos, we analyze parties' gender positions on four fundamental dimensions: welfare and the labor market, violence, representation, and values and identity. The 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 policies; support for gender equality policies on this dimension is so widespread that it can be considered a valence issue - all parties, irrespective of their ideology, endorse the same (positive) position.
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Gender issues
Manifestos
Party positions
Political parties
Spain
Manifestos
Party positions
Political parties
Spain
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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 and Gender, 19(4), 1204-1230. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X23000338