Reclaiming party politics research

Autor: Kenny, Meryl, Bjarnegard, Elin, Lovenduski, Joni, Childs, Sarah, Evans, Elizabeth, Verge, Tania
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Kenny, M, Bjarnegard, E, Lovenduski, J, Childs, S, Evans, E & Verge, T 2022, ' Reclaiming party politics research : Response to Anika Gauja and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen. 2021. Decline, adaptation and relevance: political parties and their researchers in the twentieth century. European Political Science 20(1):123–38 ', European Political Science, vol. 21, pp. 274-291 . https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-022-00362-0
ISSN: 1682-0983
1680-4333
DOI: 10.1057/s41304-022-00362-0
Popis: In a 2021 Special Issue in European Political Science, Anika Gauja and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen review the sub-field of party politics research. In doing so, they argue party politics scholarship reflects the broader development of the political science discipline, illustrating the evolving relationship between politics researchers and the organisations they study. In this reply, we argue that the party politics sub-field reflects the wider discipline in another crucial respect – it continues to marginalise gender politics scholarship. We demonstrate that a gendered lens fundamentally transforms key questions in the field around what party politics scholars study, and how and why they conduct their research, with relevant consequences for whose work is included. In failing to engage with this scholarship, “mainstream” party politics scholars are (re)producing unequal power relations and hierarchies within the discipline, whilst also depriving themselves of the capacity to address fully key questions of representation, democracy, continuity and change.
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