Episode 3: Magdalena Breyer on Women's Representation and its Effects on Political Behavior

In the third episode of "Political Science? No Problem et al.",
we talk to Dr. Magdalena Breyer about voters' reactions to
different representation trajectories of women in politics. Does
an increase in the proportion of female politicians trigger a
conservative backlash? Can stagnating women's representation
mobilize female voters for progressive parties? And what does
this tell us about changing gender-related status hierarchies in
western societies as a whole? More broadly, we discussed general
gender disparities in voting behavior, how older and younger
women differ in political preferences and how different parties
try to appeal to female voters. 


Magda is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basel and
studies the implications of shifting class and status structures
for voting behavior and party competition. You can find her
website here: https://www.magdalenabreyer.net/ and follow her on
Twitter here:https://twitter.com/magda_breyer. Magda's paper
discussed in the episode can be accessed
here:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00104140231223745


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