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Louise Luxton
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Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde working on the ParliView project | Visiting researcher at the University of Manchester | Gender, political communication, political parties, text analysis (She/her)
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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · Jul 8
What do women’s parties want? And how do their platforms differ?

Very happy to share the first paper from my PhD out now in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! In it, I present a comparative empirical analysis of European women’s parties’ issue concerns in 30yrs of party manifestos. 🧵⬇️
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🌸 #ECPG26 @ecprgender.bsky.social Section seeking Panels and Papers ⤵️
✍️ Gender and Political Communication: Empirical Perspectives
🪑 @louiseluxton.bsky.social, Daphne van der Pas
⌛👇 7 Nov buff.ly/kOdHSfI

#Gender #Governance #Government #Voting #Communication
Gender and Political Communication: Empirical Perspectives
European Conference on Gender and Politics, Newcastle University, 15 – 17 June 2026
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October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Delighted to say I'm chairing a section at ECPG 2026 with @jess-smith.bsky.social @rosieshorrocks.bsky.social @gefjonoff.bsky.social and @liranharsgor.bsky.social on Elections, Parties, and Voters! Please send your abstracts in - full info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @ecprgender.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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🔔 Call for papers for ECPG 2026 is now open! 🔔

Submit your empirical gender & political communication papers/panels to our section by Nov 7th.

Full info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
A screenshot of the overview of the ‘Gender and Political Communication: Empirical Perspectives’ section. The image shows the section title, section chairs - Louise Luxton and Daphne van der Pas - and a few lines do the section abstract.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Interested in Labour's lost voters since the 2024 UK GE?

Want to get a sneak peak at some of the results from wave 30 of the BESIP before it is released?

Then we have a new blog for you! 👇👇
britishelectionstudy.com The British Election Study @britishelectionstudy.com · Sep 3
🚨New Research 🚨

Ahead of the release of Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel, the team has examined Labour's decline since the 2024 GE.

Labour's support has splintered into mostly indecision or left-liberal parties, but they've also lost their few right-wing voters.

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tinyurl.com/3m62exph
Looking for Labour’s lost voters - The British Election Study
www.britishelectionstudy.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Have you seen our #SpecialCollection on...

📚 #Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe?

Explore 14 #FreeAccess articles on topics of growing prominence in the journal
#Equality #LGBTIQ* #Sexism #Feminism #Rights
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...
Gender and Sexuality in Southern Europe
Explore the article collection: Gender and Sexuality in Southern Europe. Published in South European Society and Politics.
www.tandfonline.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨

"School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support"

Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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Article abstract, which says: The educational cleavage is restructuring electoral competition in many democracies, yet there has been insufficient attention on how variation in educational content affects this. In order to address this, this article combines English administrative school records with a unique representative panel of adolescents to estimate the within-individual effect of studying different subjects at school on political party preference. This analysis finds that studying arts and humanities subjects leads to greater support for socially liberal parties, whilst studying business and economics increases support for economically right-wing parties. Students who study technical subjects become more likely to support socially conservative and economically right-wing parties. These relationships between particular subjects and party support also persist into adulthood. As such, this article provides new evidence on the importance of subjects taken in secondary school for political socialisation, during the impressionable years of adolescence.
July 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
louiseluxton.bsky.social
What do women’s parties want? And how do their platforms differ?

Very happy to share the first paper from my PhD out now in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! In it, I present a comparative empirical analysis of European women’s parties’ issue concerns in 30yrs of party manifestos. 🧵⬇️
July 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
louiseluxton.bsky.social
Really enjoyed this! It’s a quick read but with some brilliant deep insights on gender and the 2024 UK GE.
cerifowler.bsky.social Ceri Fowler @cerifowler.bsky.social · Nov 20
New from me, @annasanders.bsky.social , @profrosiecamp.bsky.social and Rosie Shorrocks: some first reflections on gender & the 2024 UK election @politicalquarterly.bsky.social . More to come from the same team too- watch this space! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 20, 2024 at 2:21 PM
louiseluxton.bsky.social
Parties’ stances on trans rights have shifted too. Tory manifestos 2015-19 only mention tackling trans hate crime. By 2024, they propose banning puberty blockers, mandating single-sex spaces & amending the Equality Act. I wrote about this for the Elections Analysis Report:
shorturl.at/aonwe
edhodgsoned.bsky.social Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · Nov 18
Pretty striking from the British Social Attitudes Survey: In 2016, 58% of Brits supported trans people's right to change their legal sex; by 2022 that number had halved to just 31%
November 18, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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cerifowler.bsky.social
Also seems like a great time to remind everyone that I am hosting a workshop with @genelectnet.bsky.social @jess-smith.bsky.social & Rosie Shorrocks on the 16/17 December in Oxford and our call for papers is open! genelectnetwork.wordpress.com
GenElect Network
Connecting scholars of gender and intersectionality in Elections, Public Opinion & Parties and women in EPOP. We run a media list, distribute research and opportunities to our members, and have…
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November 16, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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🎓✨Here’s your starter pack for experts on gender and its intersections in elections, public opinion, political parties, and the women in the EPOP discipline. 💡📚

Nominate yourself and others! 📣 📣

go.bsky.app/HC7Pvbd
November 16, 2024 at 3:30 PM