The Quality of Women's Political Representation
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Commenced in 2024, the purpose of the QUALREP project is to produce a theoretically-driven analysis of the quality of women’s representation, attentive to intersectional and ideological diversity and with concern for the most marginalised.
CASE STUDY COUNTRIES
Belgium
Poland
Portugal
Sweden
United Kingdom
Achieving women’s equal political participation and representation is a priority for the international community, yet representative democracy continues to fail to deliver political equality for all women.
Numerically under-represented in the world’s democracies, women, especially minoritised and marginalised women, experience a poverty of good representation.
These are ‘troubled times’, with potentially devastating crises (climate change, pandemics, widening economic inequality) having a disproportionately negative impact on the most marginalised women, amplifying the need for effective political representation.
The rise of populism contests representative democracy’s ability to respond, and frequently deploys anti-feminist claims that undermine gender equality.
New research evidencing how and when women in their diversity can be well represented is needed to strengthen democratic institutions and processes.
QUALREP addresses this through a theoretically-driven analysis of the quality of women’s representation, attentive to intersectional and ideological diversity and with concern for the most marginalised, across five European nations representing variation in gendered welfare regimes: Belgium; Poland; Portugal, Sweden and the UK.
Bringing together a research team of 11 country and comparative experts from six European institutions to create synergies that traverse the theoretical, quantitative, and qualitative silos, QUALREP will confront and examine some of the most difficult challenges for understanding the quality of women’s political representation.
If you would like to find out more about QUALREP, or you would like to be added to the mailing list for our monthly seminar series, please get in touch using the contact form.
We will continue to add to this site as our work progresses.
Upcoming Events
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QUALREP Seminar Series
Wednesday 29 January 2025
3-4pm GMT
Online Event
For the opening event of QUALREP's Gender and Politics Seminar Series, we are delighted to be joined by Professor Zoe Lefkofridi (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) to discuss the work of the PUSH*BACK*LASH project, followed by a Q&A.
Our seminar series this year will highlight the work of cutting-edge international research projects alongside QUALREP that are working on the themes of gender equality, human rights, social justice, and representation.
Registration has now closed.
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QUALREP Seminar Series
Wednesday 26 February 2025
3-4pm GMT
Online Event
We will be joined this month by Professor Susan Banducci (University of Birmingham), who will discuss the work of the TWICEASGOOD project, followed by a Q&A.
Our seminar series this year will highlight the work of cutting-edge international research projects alongside QUALREP that are working on the themes of gender equality, human rights, social justice, and representation.
Registration has now closed.
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QUALREP Seminar Series
Wednesday 26 March 2025
3-4pm GMT
Online Event
This month, we will be joined by Professor Lise Rolandsen-Agustín (Aalborg University), who will discuss the work of the FIERCE project, followed by a Q&A.
Our seminar series this year will highlight the work of cutting-edge international research projects alongside QUALREP that are working on the themes of gender equality, human rights, social justice, and representation.
Please follow the link below to register.
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QUALREP Seminar Series
Wednesday 30 April 2025
2-4pm GMT
Online Event
This month we will be joined by Dr. Rosalind Shorrocks (University of Manchester), who will discuss the work of the UNTWIST project, followed by a Q&A.
Our seminar series this year will highlight the work of cutting-edge international research projects alongside QUALREP that are working on the themes of gender equality, human rights, social justice, and representation.
Registration will open in April.
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QUALREP Seminar Series
Wednesday 28 May 2025
3-4pm GMT
Online Event
This month, for the final seminar in our series for this academic year, Professor Rosie Campbell (King’s College London) and Professor Sarah Childs (University of Edinburgh) will discuss the work of the QUALREP project.
Registration will open in May.
If you would like to be added to the mailing list for updates on our next series, please use this contact form.