Tània Verge (Principal Investigator)

Tània Verge is lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). She obtained her PhD at Universidad Complutense (2005). Tània was visiting fellow at the Departament of Politics at University of Sussex (2006-2007). Her primary research interests lie in political representation, gender and politics, and political parties. She was the local organizer of the 3rd European Conference on Politics and Gender (Barcelona, 21-23 March 2013). She has been part of several national and international research projects on political parties and on gender and politics. She is a team member of the project Mulh(j)er e Poder and the national team leader of the project Political Party Database. She has published in international journals such as Party PoliticsWest European PoliticsInternational Political Science ReviewSouth European Society & PoliticsJournal of Women, Politics & Policy.

Homepage: http://www.taniaverge.cat

Email: [email protected]

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Nina Wiesehomeier

Nina Wiesehomeier is lecturer at the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University (UK) and Associated Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). She received her MA in Public Policy and Management in 2003 from Konstanz University (Germany), Department of Politics and Management and concluded her PhD in 2008 at the same university. Nina was visiting fellow at the Helen Kellogg Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame (USA) during the academic year 2008-2009. Current research interests are comparative political institutions, political parties and representation. She has published in the Journal of PoliticsPolitical Science and Research Methods and the Journal of Peace Research. She is the principal investigator of the research project Mulh(j)er e Poder.

Homepage: http://www.wiesehomeier.net/

Email: [email protected]

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Ana Espírito-Santo

Ana Espírito-Santo (PhD, European University Institute, 2011) is an invited assistant professor at ISCTE-IUL(Lisbon University Institute), Depart. Political Science & Public Policies and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS). Her current research interests are gender and politics, specifically gender gaps in political attitudes and power, as well as quotas and the effects they produce. She is also interested in political recruitment and representation. Ana has been part of various national and international research projects focusing on these and other topics, such as the Portuguese Election Study, QUINGEuropean Project, and EU Profiler. She is also a team member of the project Mulh(j)er e Poder.

Email[email protected]

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Leslie Schwindt-Bayer

Leslie Schwindt-Bayer is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rice University (USA). She received her BA at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1996. She got her Master's degree in Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona in 1999 and her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Arizona in 2003. Her major areas of research include comparative politics, legislatures, representation, Latin America, and gender and politics. She was a U.S. Fulbright Fellow in Colombia in 2003, and in Fall 2008, she worked at the University of Notre Dame as a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Leslie is the author of Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America (Oxford University Press 2010) and co-author of The Gendered Effects of Electoral Institutions: Political Engagement and Participation (Oxford University Press 2012). She is a team member of the project Mulh(j)er e Poder.

Homepage: http://schwindt.rice.edu 
Email: [email protected]

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Raquel Pastor Yuste

Raquel Pastor Yuste is Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Economics at the Universidad de Cádiz (UCA). She obtained her PhD at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2009). She was a visiting fellow at Birbeck College-University of London (2004) and at University of Ottawa (2004). Her research centers on women's social and political status. She has extensive experience in national research projects focused on gender equality and welfare policies. Raquel is the author of Género, élites políticas y representación parlamentaria en España (Tirant lo Blanc, 2011).

Email: [email protected]

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M. Antonia Ruiz Jiménez

M. Antonia Ruiz Jiménez is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO). She got her Master's degree in Social Sciences at the Juan March Institute in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2002. Her doctoral dissertation entitled Mecanismos del cambio ideológico e introducción de políticas de género en partidos conservadores: el caso de AP-PP en España en perspectiva comparada was distinguished with the best dissertation award of the Asociación Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA) in its 2002-2003 edition. It was recently published as a monography by the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (2006). She has been the principal investigator of a research project on left-wing parties and nationalism. 

Email: [email protected]

 

Collaborators of the project:

Rebecca Tildesley

Rebecca Tildesley got her BA in Political Science at University of Bristol (UK) in 2013 and her Master's degree in Political Science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 2014. Her dissertation "The symbolic representation of women and foetus in the Spanish abortion debate" (2009/2013)" obtained the qualification pass with honours.

 

Elena Oliva Ruiz 

Elena Oliva Ruiz is a 4th year undergraduate student at Universidad de Cádiz (BA on Criminology and Security).

 

María Evelin Robles García 

María Evelin Robles García  is a 4th year  undergraduate student at Universidad de Cádiz (BA on Criminology and Security).