Anna Gwiazda
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1534425 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anna Gwiazda |
| NOMBRES | Anna |
| APELLIDO | Gwiazda |
| FIRMA | GWIAZDA A |
| AFILIACIONES | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2853-2194 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 171 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Explaining the Revival of Feminist Movements
What explains the revival of feminism? Traditional explanations focus on socio-economic factors, relative deprivation and resource mobilization. This article offers a novel perspective on political process theory, arguing that gendered moral shocks act as catalysts for reigniting feminist movements, with emotions playing a key role in understanding how antifeminist threats drive women’s mobilization. The hypothesis is tested using the most differ…
Women’s participation and democratic resilience
In an era of democratic erosion, several factors can contribute to democratic resilience. However, the existing literature has largely overlooked the role of women. This article examines how women’s electoral and non-electoral participation is linked to democratic outcomes during periods of democratic backsliding and the rise of right-wing populism. Drawing on comparative insights from Poland and South Korea, it explores how women’s protest activ…
Feminist protests in times of democratic backsliding
Why are feminist protests more widespread in some countries experiencing democratic backsliding than in others? This article explores this question using the most-similar-systems design, examining two Central European countries that experienced democratic backsliding but demonstrated different degrees of women’s mobilization. Feminist protests were limited in Hungary but widespread in Poland in response to illiberal changes and an antifeminist ba…
Gendered advocacy coalitions and the Istanbul Convention
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention or IC, is a contested issue in Central and Eastern Europe. This article investigates this matter further by focusing specifically on Bulgaria and Poland using the most similar systems design; the former country has not ratified the convention, but the latter has. In this article, we draw on the literature on …
Gender Ideologies and Polish Political Parties
This article explores the gender dimension of ideology and representation by analysing the political parties that ran in the 2019 Polish parliamentary elections, using a novel analytical framework based on gender claims and gender-related policy pledges. This article demonstrates that a left and liberal ideology largely determines feminist and pro-LGBTQ+ promissory representation. However, the gender ideologies of right-wing political parties var…
Feminist Protests, Abortion Rights and Polish Democracy
Bibliographie: Gwiazda, Anna: Feminist Protests, Abortion Rights and Polish Democracy, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 1-2021, S. 129-133. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v30i1.15
Introduction to the symposium on women’s political representation in Central and Eastern Europe
This symposium explores issues concerning the political representation of women in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). More than 30 years after the fall of communism, the assessment of women’s role i
Right-wing populism and feminist politics
This article disentangles the complexity of right-wing populism and feminist politics using an original framework based on inputs (representative claims) and outputs (policies) to examine a Polish case. In 2015, the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS) formed a single-party majority government led by a female prime minister after winning the elections. PiS is ideologically conservative, promotes traditional and national values and is s…
Analysing the “what” and “when” of women’s substantive representation
Existing scholarship underscores the contested nature of the relationship between women's representation and right-wing parties. This article contributes to this literature by examining women's substantive representation in Poland under the right-wing populist Law and Justice government from 2015 to 2019. It is specifically concerned with the "what" and "when" of substantive representation: while the former deals with various women's issues, the …
Introduction to the Special Issue on Politics and Gender in Eastern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Effect of Electing Women on Future Female Candidate Selection Patterns
In this article, we address the question of how electing women to national or subnational parliaments affects future female candidate selection in an open-list proportional representation system, using the example of Poland. We consider three potential effects of electing a woman. First, based on existing theories of the incumbency advantage, elected women should have higher chances of reselection and reelection in future elections (incumbency ef…
The Substantive Representation of Women in Poland
This article examines the substantive representation of women in Poland after the 2015 parliamentary elections. By looking at the case of the Black Protests, in which tens of thousands of demonstrators, wearing black, defended women's rights by protesting a proposed total abortion ban, it revisits the existing approaches to substantive representation. Hanna Pitkin's definition is used as a starting point, but then broader questions concerning wom…
Women in parliament
Gender quotas aim to increase women’s parliamentary representation. However, the effectiveness of quotas varies. This article explores this issue further by examining the case of Poland, where gender quotas were introduced in 2011. The Polish case presents an interesting puzzle. Although the overall number of women candidates increased almost twofold in comparison with the pre-quota period, this translated into only a slight increase in the numbe…
Democracy in Poland
This book assesses the quality of democracy in Poland from the collapse of communism in 1989 up to the 2011 parliamentary election. It presents an in-depth, empirically grounded study comparing two decades of democratic politics. Drawing on democratic theory and comparative politics, the book puts forward an evaluation of democracy based on four dimensions: representation, participation, competition and accountability. The book is an important co…
Women's representation and gender quotas
Representation is inherent to democracy and truly representative institutions are vital for a good quality democracy. However, the argument that parliaments are not sufficiently representative because of female under-representation is widespread. A number of countries around the world have introduced gender quotas in order to enhance the descriptive representation of women. This article analyses women's representation and the adoption of gender q…
The Europeanisation of regional policy in Poland
This paper examines the role of the European Union (EU) and the policy preferences of parties in government for the Europeanisation of regional policy in Poland. While the importance of the EU is undeniable, the role of political parties is unexplored in the literature. This paper presents a more nuanced approach to the study of policy preferences than the partisan theory proposes. It focuses on strategic origins of policy preferences which domin…
The Impact of Expansion on European Union Institutions
The Impact of Expansion on European Union Institutions: The Eastern Touch on Brussels By Eva G. Heidbreder Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2011, 208 pp., £58.00, ISBN 9780230110960 (hbk) Eastern e
The Europeanization of flexicurity
The Lisbon Strategy promoted flexicurity as a means to achieve full employment and modernize national labour markets in the European Union. Flexicurity, which combines flexible labour markets and secure employment, became a leitmotif not only for the European Employment Strategy and the Lisbon Strategy but also for national employment policies. However, this contribution shows that there were mixed results in terms of policy adoption in Italy and…
Three roads to institutionalisation
Party institutionalisation is a central problem in political science. The literature tends to understand it as a syndrome, and therefore has difficulty explaining variations in institutionalisation. We suggest a new approach based on the transaction between a legislative party and its deputies, the failure of which is observable in party switching. We identify three routes to institutionalisation by appealing to the vote-seeking, office-seeking o…
Party Patronage in Poland
Patronage is central to Polish party politics. The power of a governing party to appoint its supporters to positions in public and semi-public spheres will be examined in this paper. The two governments under investigation are: the center—left coalition government of the Democratic Left Alliance, the Labour Union, and the Polish Peasant Party formed in October 2001 and the center—right minority government of the Law and Justice party formed in Oc…
The parliamentary election in Poland, October 2007
Europeanization of Polish Competition Policy
This article examines the impact of the European Union (EU) on competition policy in Poland in the pre‐accession stage. It explains the variation in the Europeanization of antitrust and state aid policies assessed on the basis of compliance with EU accession criteria: while antitrust legislation was incrementally harmonized with the EU acquis, it took almost ten years to introduce law regulating state aid. Drawing from rational choice institution…
Right-wing populism and feminist politics
This article disentangles the complexity of right-wing populism and feminist politics using an original framework based on inputs (representative claims) and outputs (policies) to examine a Polish case. In 2015, the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS) formed a single-party majority government led by a female prime minister after winning the elections. PiS is ideologically conservative, promotes traditional and national values and is s…
Three roads to institutionalisation
Party institutionalisation is a central problem in political science. The literature tends to understand it as a syndrome, and therefore has difficulty explaining variations in institutionalisation. We suggest a new approach based on the transaction between a legislative party and its deputies, the failure of which is observable in party switching. We identify three routes to institutionalisation by appealing to the vote-seeking, office-seeking o…
Women's representation and gender quotas
Representation is inherent to democracy and truly representative institutions are vital for a good quality democracy. However, the argument that parliaments are not sufficiently representative because of female under-representation is widespread. A number of countries around the world have introduced gender quotas in order to enhance the descriptive representation of women. This article analyses women's representation and the adoption of gender q…
Gender Ideologies and Polish Political Parties
This article explores the gender dimension of ideology and representation by analysing the political parties that ran in the 2019 Polish parliamentary elections, using a novel analytical framework based on gender claims and gender-related policy pledges. This article demonstrates that a left and liberal ideology largely determines feminist and pro-LGBTQ+ promissory representation. However, the gender ideologies of right-wing political parties var…
Women in parliament
Gender quotas aim to increase women’s parliamentary representation. However, the effectiveness of quotas varies. This article explores this issue further by examining the case of Poland, where gender quotas were introduced in 2011. The Polish case presents an interesting puzzle. Although the overall number of women candidates increased almost twofold in comparison with the pre-quota period, this translated into only a slight increase in the numbe…
The Europeanization of flexicurity
The Lisbon Strategy promoted flexicurity as a means to achieve full employment and modernize national labour markets in the European Union. Flexicurity, which combines flexible labour markets and secure employment, became a leitmotif not only for the European Employment Strategy and the Lisbon Strategy but also for national employment policies. However, this contribution shows that there were mixed results in terms of policy adoption in Italy and…
The Effect of Electing Women on Future Female Candidate Selection Patterns
In this article, we address the question of how electing women to national or subnational parliaments affects future female candidate selection in an open-list proportional representation system, using the example of Poland. We consider three potential effects of electing a woman. First, based on existing theories of the incumbency advantage, elected women should have higher chances of reselection and reelection in future elections (incumbency ef…
The Substantive Representation of Women in Poland
This article examines the substantive representation of women in Poland after the 2015 parliamentary elections. By looking at the case of the Black Protests, in which tens of thousands of demonstrators, wearing black, defended women's rights by protesting a proposed total abortion ban, it revisits the existing approaches to substantive representation. Hanna Pitkin's definition is used as a starting point, but then broader questions concerning wom…
Analysing the “what” and “when” of women’s substantive representation
Existing scholarship underscores the contested nature of the relationship between women's representation and right-wing parties. This article contributes to this literature by examining women's substantive representation in Poland under the right-wing populist Law and Justice government from 2015 to 2019. It is specifically concerned with the "what" and "when" of substantive representation: while the former deals with various women's issues, the …
The parliamentary election in Poland, October 2007
Europeanization of Polish Competition Policy
This article examines the impact of the European Union (EU) on competition policy in Poland in the pre‐accession stage. It explains the variation in the Europeanization of antitrust and state aid policies assessed on the basis of compliance with EU accession criteria: while antitrust legislation was incrementally harmonized with the EU acquis, it took almost ten years to introduce law regulating state aid. Drawing from rational choice institution…
Party Patronage in Poland
Patronage is central to Polish party politics. The power of a governing party to appoint its supporters to positions in public and semi-public spheres will be examined in this paper. The two governments under investigation are: the center—left coalition government of the Democratic Left Alliance, the Labour Union, and the Polish Peasant Party formed in October 2001 and the center—right minority government of the Law and Justice party formed in Oc…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Politics and Gender in Eastern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Europeanisation of regional policy in Poland
This paper examines the role of the European Union (EU) and the policy preferences of parties in government for the Europeanisation of regional policy in Poland. While the importance of the EU is undeniable, the role of political parties is unexplored in the literature. This paper presents a more nuanced approach to the study of policy preferences than the partisan theory proposes. It focuses on strategic origins of policy preferences which domin…
Gendered advocacy coalitions and the Istanbul Convention
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention or IC, is a contested issue in Central and Eastern Europe. This article investigates this matter further by focusing specifically on Bulgaria and Poland using the most similar systems design; the former country has not ratified the convention, but the latter has. In this article, we draw on the literature on …
Introduction to the symposium on women’s political representation in Central and Eastern Europe
This symposium explores issues concerning the political representation of women in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). More than 30 years after the fall of communism, the assessment of women’s role i
Europeanization of Polish Competition Policy
This article examines the impact of the European Union (EU) on competition policy in Poland in the pre‐accession stage. It explains the variation in the Europeanization of antitrust and state aid policies assessed on the basis of compliance with EU accession criteria: while antitrust legislation was incrementally harmonized with the EU acquis, it took almost ten years to introduce law regulating state aid. Drawing from rational choice institution…
Party Patronage in Poland
Patronage is central to Polish party politics. The power of a governing party to appoint its supporters to positions in public and semi-public spheres will be examined in this paper. The two governments under investigation are: the center—left coalition government of the Democratic Left Alliance, the Labour Union, and the Polish Peasant Party formed in October 2001 and the center—right minority government of the Law and Justice party formed in Oc…
The parliamentary election in Poland, October 2007
The Europeanization of flexicurity
The Lisbon Strategy promoted flexicurity as a means to achieve full employment and modernize national labour markets in the European Union. Flexicurity, which combines flexible labour markets and secure employment, became a leitmotif not only for the European Employment Strategy and the Lisbon Strategy but also for national employment policies. However, this contribution shows that there were mixed results in terms of policy adoption in Italy and…
Three roads to institutionalisation
Party institutionalisation is a central problem in political science. The literature tends to understand it as a syndrome, and therefore has difficulty explaining variations in institutionalisation. We suggest a new approach based on the transaction between a legislative party and its deputies, the failure of which is observable in party switching. We identify three routes to institutionalisation by appealing to the vote-seeking, office-seeking o…
The Impact of Expansion on European Union Institutions
The Impact of Expansion on European Union Institutions: The Eastern Touch on Brussels By Eva G. Heidbreder Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2011, 208 pp., £58.00, ISBN 9780230110960 (hbk) Eastern e
The Europeanisation of regional policy in Poland
This paper examines the role of the European Union (EU) and the policy preferences of parties in government for the Europeanisation of regional policy in Poland. While the importance of the EU is undeniable, the role of political parties is unexplored in the literature. This paper presents a more nuanced approach to the study of policy preferences than the partisan theory proposes. It focuses on strategic origins of policy preferences which domin…
Democracy in Poland
This book assesses the quality of democracy in Poland from the collapse of communism in 1989 up to the 2011 parliamentary election. It presents an in-depth, empirically grounded study comparing two decades of democratic politics. Drawing on democratic theory and comparative politics, the book puts forward an evaluation of democracy based on four dimensions: representation, participation, competition and accountability. The book is an important co…
Women's representation and gender quotas
Representation is inherent to democracy and truly representative institutions are vital for a good quality democracy. However, the argument that parliaments are not sufficiently representative because of female under-representation is widespread. A number of countries around the world have introduced gender quotas in order to enhance the descriptive representation of women. This article analyses women's representation and the adoption of gender q…
Women in parliament
Gender quotas aim to increase women’s parliamentary representation. However, the effectiveness of quotas varies. This article explores this issue further by examining the case of Poland, where gender quotas were introduced in 2011. The Polish case presents an interesting puzzle. Although the overall number of women candidates increased almost twofold in comparison with the pre-quota period, this translated into only a slight increase in the numbe…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Politics and Gender in Eastern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Effect of Electing Women on Future Female Candidate Selection Patterns
In this article, we address the question of how electing women to national or subnational parliaments affects future female candidate selection in an open-list proportional representation system, using the example of Poland. We consider three potential effects of electing a woman. First, based on existing theories of the incumbency advantage, elected women should have higher chances of reselection and reelection in future elections (incumbency ef…
The Substantive Representation of Women in Poland
This article examines the substantive representation of women in Poland after the 2015 parliamentary elections. By looking at the case of the Black Protests, in which tens of thousands of demonstrators, wearing black, defended women's rights by protesting a proposed total abortion ban, it revisits the existing approaches to substantive representation. Hanna Pitkin's definition is used as a starting point, but then broader questions concerning wom…
Feminist Protests, Abortion Rights and Polish Democracy
Bibliographie: Gwiazda, Anna: Feminist Protests, Abortion Rights and Polish Democracy, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 1-2021, S. 129-133. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v30i1.15
Introduction to the symposium on women’s political representation in Central and Eastern Europe
This symposium explores issues concerning the political representation of women in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). More than 30 years after the fall of communism, the assessment of women’s role i
Right-wing populism and feminist politics
This article disentangles the complexity of right-wing populism and feminist politics using an original framework based on inputs (representative claims) and outputs (policies) to examine a Polish case. In 2015, the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS) formed a single-party majority government led by a female prime minister after winning the elections. PiS is ideologically conservative, promotes traditional and national values and is s…
Analysing the “what” and “when” of women’s substantive representation
Existing scholarship underscores the contested nature of the relationship between women's representation and right-wing parties. This article contributes to this literature by examining women's substantive representation in Poland under the right-wing populist Law and Justice government from 2015 to 2019. It is specifically concerned with the "what" and "when" of substantive representation: while the former deals with various women's issues, the …
Gendered advocacy coalitions and the Istanbul Convention
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention or IC, is a contested issue in Central and Eastern Europe. This article investigates this matter further by focusing specifically on Bulgaria and Poland using the most similar systems design; the former country has not ratified the convention, but the latter has. In this article, we draw on the literature on …
Gender Ideologies and Polish Political Parties
This article explores the gender dimension of ideology and representation by analysing the political parties that ran in the 2019 Polish parliamentary elections, using a novel analytical framework based on gender claims and gender-related policy pledges. This article demonstrates that a left and liberal ideology largely determines feminist and pro-LGBTQ+ promissory representation. However, the gender ideologies of right-wing political parties var…
Feminist protests in times of democratic backsliding
Why are feminist protests more widespread in some countries experiencing democratic backsliding than in others? This article explores this question using the most-similar-systems design, examining two Central European countries that experienced democratic backsliding but demonstrated different degrees of women’s mobilization. Feminist protests were limited in Hungary but widespread in Poland in response to illiberal changes and an antifeminist ba…
Explaining the Revival of Feminist Movements
What explains the revival of feminism? Traditional explanations focus on socio-economic factors, relative deprivation and resource mobilization. This article offers a novel perspective on political process theory, arguing that gendered moral shocks act as catalysts for reigniting feminist movements, with emotions playing a key role in understanding how antifeminist threats drive women’s mobilization. The hypothesis is tested using the most differ…
Women’s participation and democratic resilience
In an era of democratic erosion, several factors can contribute to democratic resilience. However, the existing literature has largely overlooked the role of women. This article examines how women’s electoral and non-electoral participation is linked to democratic outcomes during periods of democratic backsliding and the rise of right-wing populism. Drawing on comparative insights from Poland and South Korea, it explores how women’s protest activ…
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