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These findings:

🔹Provides a foundation to assess women’s parties’ impact on party competition over gender issues

🔹Highlights how different visions of SRW translate into substantive policy agendas & raises important Qs of challenges women’s parties face in consolidating an electoral base

Key finding: Contemporary feminist parties uniquely emphasise transnational concerns:

🔹Frame gender equality as a global structural issue
🔹Promote intersectional feminism incl. LGBTQ+ rights, anti-racism & economic justice
🔹Efforts to org. a unified European movement to counter the far-right

These distinctions are empirically evident in parties’ platforms:

🔹Essentialist women’s parties = higher emphasis of democratic & civil rights & economic redistribution

🔹Feminist parties = greater emphasis on gender-based violence & transnational issues e.g., climate, asylum & foreign policy

Building on theoretical literature, I distinguish two types of women’s parties that emphasise different issues:

🔹Essentialist women’s parties - emphasise women’s dem rights & material conditions

🔹Feminist parties - emphasise structural gender inequalities & broader cultural/political concerns.

First, I find common ground. Across diverse contexts, women’s parties’ manifestos consistently emphasise:

🔹 Gender equality
🔹 Social justice
🔹 Childcare and social policy

However, there is significant variation in how these issues are framed and which additional issues are prioritised.

In this article, I address that gap by analysing 45 manifestos from 20 women’s parties in 18 countries, 1990–2020.

Using a mixed-method design (topic modeling + thematic analysis), I examine both commonalities and differences in issue salience and framing.

Women’s parties have consistently emerged across European democracies to improve women’s political representation and politicise gender issues.

Despite their potential influence we lack systematic knowledge of what these parties actually emphasise in their platforms.