Publications

These publications have  received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement 771676).

Books and Special Issues

Ahrens, Petra, Anna Elomäki, and Johanna Kantola (eds.) (2022). European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times. Basingstoke: Palgrave. *Open access!

This book has been reviewed by:

Valentine Berthet, Barbara Gaweda, Johanna Kantola, Cherry Miller, Petra Ahrens and Anna Elomäki (2023) Guide to Qualitative Research in Parliaments (Palgrave). *Open Access!

Sawer, Marian, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True, and Johanna Kantola (eds.) (2023). Handbook on Feminist Governance. Edward Elgar.

Lombardo, Emanuela, Johanna Kantola, and Ruth Rubio Marín (eds.) (2021). ‘De-democratisation and opposition to gender equality policies in Europe’. Guest edited Special Issue for Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 28(3), 521–531. Open access

Kantola, Johanna and Emanuela Lombardo (2020). ‘Populism and Feminist Politics’. A guest edited Symposium for International Political Science Review, 42(5), 561–564. Open access

Miller, Cherry (2021) Gendering the Everyday in the UK House of Commons: Beneath the Spectacle (Palgrave).

Ahrens, Petra, and Lise Rolandsen Agustín (eds). (2019) Gendering the European Parliament: Introducing Structures, Policies, and Practices. Rowman & Littlefield.

Journal Articles

Kantola, Johanna and Emanuela Lombardo (forthcoming): Feminist institutional responses to anti-gender politics in parliamentary contexts. Accepted for publication in the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

Elomäki, Anna, Johanna Kantola, Petra Ahrens, Valentine Berthet, Barbara Gaweda and Cherry Miller (2023): “The role of national delegations in the politics of the European Parliament”. West European Politics. Online first

Elomäki, Anna and Taru Haapala (2023) Politics of expertise in the European Parliament: discursive constructions and contestations of expertise by party-political actors, Journal of European Integration, Open access

Kantola, Johanna, Anna Elomäki, Barbara Gaweda, Cherry Miller, Petra Ahrens, and Valentine Berthet (2023). ‘“It’s like shouting to a brick wall”: Normative whiteness and racism in the European Parliament’. American Political Science Review, 117(1), 1–16. Open access

Elomäki, Anna (2023). “Austerity and its alternatives in the European parliament: from the Eurozone crisis to the COVID-19 crisis”. Comparative European Polititcs. Online first. Open access

Kantola, Johanna and Cherry Miller (2023). ‘Eternal Friends or Jubilant Brexiteers? The Impact of Brexit on UK MEPs’ Parliamentary Work in the European Parliament’. Journal of Common Market Studies, 61(3), 712–729. Open access

Ahrens, Petra and Johanna Kantola (2023). ‘Political Group Formation in the European Parliament: Negotiating Democracy and Gender’. Party Politics, 29 (5), 817–828. Open access

Elomäki, Anna and Johanna Kantola (2023). ‘Feminist Governance in the European Parliament: The Political Struggle over the Inclusion of Gender in the EU’s Covid-19 Response’. Politics & Gender, 1–22. Open access

Gaweda, Barbara, Marco Siddi, and Cherry Miller (2023). ‘What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament’. Party Politics, 29 (5), 829–839.  Open access

Ahrens, Petra and Cherry Miller (2023). ‘The Relationships Between Europarties and European Political Groups: Changing Formal and Informal Rules and the Spitzenkandidatur’. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 19(1), 109–128. Open access

Gaweda, Barbara and Marco Siddi (2023). The 2022 Italian Elections and Gender+ Equality. Femina Politica–Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 32(1), 120–124. Open access

Ahrens, Petra, Petra Meier and Lise Rolandsen Agustín (2022). ‘The European Parliament and Gender Equality: An Analysis of Achievements Based on the Concept of Power’. Journal of Common Market Studies, 61(4), 1065–1081. Open access

Berthet, Valentine (2022). ‘United in Crisis: Abortion Politics in the European Parliament and Political Groups’ Dispute over EU Values‘. Journal of Common Market Studies, 60(6), 1797–1814. Open access

Ahrens, Petra and Anna Elomäki (2022). ‘Researching without asking actors directly: the value of interpretative methods in studying gender mainstreaming implementation in the European Parliament’. Political Research Exchange, 4(1), 2120407. Open access

Elomäki, Anna and Petra Ahrens (2022). ‘Contested gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament’. European Journal of Gender and Politics, 5(3), 322–340. Open access

Zacharenko, Elena and Anna Elomäki (2022). ‘Constructions of care in EU economic, social, and gender equality policy: care providers and care recipients vs. the needs of the economy?’ Social Politics. International Journal of Gender, State & Society, 29(4), 1314–1335. Open access

Miller, Cherry (2022). ‘Between Westminster and Brussels: Putting the “Parliament” in Parliamentary Ethnography’. Politics & Gender,1–27. Open access

Elomäki, Anna and Barbara Gaweda (2022). ‘Looking for the ‘social’ in the European Semester: European Parliament and the ‘socialization’ of the European Semester’. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 18(1), 166–183. Open access

Berthet, Valentine (2022). ‘Norm under fire: Support for and opposition to the EU’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention in the European Parliament’. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 24(5), 675–698. Open access

Ahrens, Petra, Barbara Gaweda, and Johanna Kantola (2021). ‘Reframing the language of human rights? Political group contestations on women’s and LGBTQI rights in European Parliament debates’. Journal of European Integration, 44(6), 803–819. Open access 

*Read a blog post about the journal article on LSE EUROPP here

Cavaghan, Rosalind and Anna Elomäki (2021). ‘Dead ends and blind spots in the European Semester: the epistemological foundation of the crisis of social reproduction’. Journal of Common Market Studies, 60(4), 885–902. Open access

Berthet, Valentine (2021). ‘Mobilization against sexual harassment in the European Parliament: the MeTooEP campaign’. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 29(2), 331–346. Open access

Kantola, Johanna and Emanuela Lombardo (2021). ‘Challenges to democratic practices and discourses in the European Parliament: Feminist perspectives on the politics of political groups’. Social Politics, 28(3), 579–603. Open access

Gaweda, Barbara (2021). ‘Europeanization, Democratization, and Backsliding: Trajectories and Framings of Gender Equality Institutions in Poland’. Social Politics, 28(3), 629–655. Open access

Elomäki, Anna (2021). ‘“It’s a total no-no.” Strategic silence about gender in the European Parliament’s economic governance debates’. International Political Science Review, 0192512120978329. Open access 

Elomäki, Anna and Anni Marttinen (2021). ‘Talouskuri ja byrokraattinen asiantuntijavalta. Eurooppalaisen ohjausjakson toimeenpano ja merkitys Suomessa’ [Austerity and the power of experts. Implementation and significance of the European Semester in Finland]. Poliittinen talous, 9(1), 41–71. Open access

Ahrens, Petra (2021). ‘Gender Mainstreaming im Europäischen Parlament: Geschichte, Institutionalisierung, Hindernisse’. GENDER Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 13(1), 11–26. Open access

Kantola, Johanna and Cherry Miller (2021). ‘Party politics and radical right populism in the European Parliament: Analysing political groups as democratic actors’. Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), 59(4), 782–801. Open access

Kantola, Johanna and Emanuela Lombardo (2021). ‘Opposition strategies of right populists against gender equality in a polarized European Parliament”. International Political Science Review, 42(5), 565–579. Open access
*Read a blog post about the journal article on LSE EUROPP here

Ahrens, Petra, Silvia Erzeel, Elizabeth Evans, Johanna Kantola, Roman Kuhar, and Emanuela Lombardo (2021). ‘Gender and Politics Research in Europe: Towards a Consolidation of a Flourishing Political Science Subfield?’ European Political Science, 20(1), 105–122. Open access

Elomäki, Anna (2020). ‘Economization of expert knowledge about gender equality in the European Union’. Social Politics: International Studies in State, Gender & Society, 28(4), 1162–1184. Open access 

Miller, Cherry (2020). ‘Parliamentary Recruitment in the UK House of Commons: De-Gendering Workplace Structures: Gendering the Applicant’. Parliamentary Affairs, 75(1), 39–57. Open access 

Miller, Cherry (2020). ‘Parliamentary Ethnography and Feminist Institutionalism: Gendering Institutions – But how?’ European Journal of Politics and Gender, 4(3), 361–380. Open access 

Berthet, Valentine and Johanna Kantola (2020). ‘Gender, violence and political institutions: Struggles over sexual harassment in the European Parliament’. Social Politics, 28(1), 143–167. Open access 

Elomäki, Anna and Johanna Kantola (2020). ‘European Social Partners as Gender Equality Actors in EU Social and Economic Governance’, Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), 58(4), 999–1015. Open access

Ahrens, Petra and Alison Woodward (2020). ‘Adjusting venues and voices: populist and right-wing parties, the European Parliament and civil society equality organizations 2014–2019’, European Politics and Society, 22(4), 486–502. Open access 

Kantola, Johanna and Lise Rolandsen Agustin (2019). ‘Gendering the representative work of the European Parliament: A political analysis of women MEP’s perceptions of gender equality in party groups’, Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), 57(4), 768–786. Open access 

Lombardo, Emanuela and Johanna Kantola (2019). ‘European integration and disintegration: Feminist perspectives to inequalities and social justice’, Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), 57, 62–76. Open access 

Ahrens, Petra (2019). ‘The birth, life, and death of policy instruments: 35 years of EU gender equality policy programmes’, West European Politics, 42(1), 45–66. Open access

Ahrens, Petra, and Anna van der Vleuten (2019). ‘Fish Fingers and Measles? Assessing Complex Gender Equality in the Scenarios for the Future of Europe’, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 58, 292–308. Open access

Kantola, Johanna and Emanuela Lombardo (2019). ‘Populism and feminist politics: The cases of Finland and Spain’, European Journal of Political Research (EJPR), 84(4), 1108–1128. Open access

 

Book Chapters

Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo (2023). ‘The European Parliament as a gender equality actor: A contradictory forerunner’ in Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True, Johanna Kantola (eds.). Handbook of Feminist Governance. Edward Elgar, 299–310. Open access

Ahrens, Petra (2023). ‘Velvet triangles and more: supranational EU gender equality actors in action’ in Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True, Johanna Kantola (eds.). Handbook of Feminist Governance. Edward Elgar, 335–346. Open access

Elomäki, Anna (2023). ‘Challenges to feminist knowledge? The economization of EU gender equality policy’ in Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True, Johanna Kantola (eds.). Handbook of Feminist Governance. Edward Elgar, 323–334. Open access

Sawer, Marian, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True and Johanna Kantola (2023). ‘Introduction to the Handbook of Feminist Governance’ in Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True, Johanna Kantola (eds.). Handbook of Feminist Governance. Edward Elgar, 1–13.  Open access

Kantola, Johanna, Anna Elomäki, and Petra Ahrens (2022). ‘Introduction: European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times’ in Petra Ahrens, Anna Elomäki, and Johanna Kantola (eds.) European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1–23. Open access

Kantola, Johanna (2022). ‘Parliamentary Politics and Polarization around Gender: The Case of Tackling Gendered Inequalities in Political Groups in the European Parliament’ in Petra Ahrens, Anna Elomäki, and Johanna Kantola (eds.) European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 221–243. Open access

Elomäki, Anna, Barbara Gaweda, and Valentine Berthet (2022). ‘Democratic Practices and Political Dynamics of Intra-Group Policy Formation in the European Parliament’ in Petra Ahrens, Anna Elomäki, and Johanna Kantola (eds.) European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 73–96. Open access

Ahrens, Petra and Johanna Kantola (2022). ‘Negotiating Power and Democracy in Political Group Formation in the European Parliament’ in Petra Ahrens, Anna Elomäki, and Johanna Kantola (eds.) European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 25–48. Open access

Elomäki, Anna, Petra Ahrens, Johanna Kantola (2022). ‘Turbulent Times for the European Parliament’s Political Groups? Lessons on Continuity and Change’ in Petra Ahrens, Anna Elomäki, and Johanna Kantola (eds.) European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 267–282. Open access

Miller, Cherry (2022). ‘”Ethno, ethno, what?” Using ethnography to explore the European Parliament’s Political Groupings in Contested times’ in Petra Ahrens, Anna Elomäki, and Johanna Kantola (eds.) European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 245–266. Open access

Kantola, Johanna and Cherry Miller (2022). ‘Gendered leadership in the European Parliament’s political groups’ in Henriette Mueller and Ingeborg Toemmel (eds.) Women and leadership in the European Union, 150–170. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gaweda, Barbara (2022). ‘Reinventing Resistance: An Intersectional Look at the Feminist Responses to Anti-Gender+ Equality in Poland’ in Bianka Vida (ed.) The Gendered Politics of Crises and De-Democratization. Opposition to Gender Equality. ECPR Press.

Elomäki, Anna and Johanna Kantola (2022). ‘European Social Partners: Advancing and Opposing European Union’s Gender Equality Policies’ in Anna Elomäki, Johanna Kantola and Paula Koskinen Sandberg (eds.) Social partners and gender equality: Change and continuity in gendered corporatism in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Elomäki, Anna and Johanna Kantola (2021). ‘Tasa-arvopolitiikka: epätasaista kehitystä, poliittisia suunnanmuutoksia ja polarisaatiota’ [EU gender equality policy: uneven progress, political U-turns and polarization] in Juho Saari and Tapio Raunio (eds.) Moninaisuudessaan yhtenäinen? Euroopan unionin suunta. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Ahrens, Petra and Lise Rolandsen Agustín (2021). ‘European Party Politics’ in Gabriele Abels et al. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Gender and EU Politics. London: Routledge.

Ahrens, Petra and Lise Rolandsen Agustín (2021). ‘European Parliament’ in Gabriele Abels et al. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Gender and EU Politics. London: Routledge.

Kantola, Johanna and Emanuela Lombardo (2021). ‘Economic Crisis and Austerity Politics’ in Gabriele Abels et al. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Gender and EU Politics. London: Routledge.

Lombardo, Emanuela and Johanna Kantola (2021). ‘Social Constructivism’ in Gabriele Abels et al. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Gender and EU Politics. London: Routledge.

Cavaghan, Rosalind and Anna Elomäki (2021). ‘Feminist Political Economy and its Explanatory Promise’ in Gabriele Abels et al. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Gender and EU Politics. London: Routledge.

Ahrens, Petra (2020). ‘Gleichstellungspolitik’ in Werner Weidenfeld and Wolfgang Wessels (eds.) Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2020. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 253–256.

Elomäki, Anna and Johanna Kantola (2020). ‘Tasa-arvopolitiikan suunnanmuutos Euroopan unionissa’ in Johanna Kantola, Paula Koskinen Sandberg and Hanna Ylöstalo (eds.) Tasa-arvopolitiikan suunnanmuutos. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Ahrens, Petra and Petra Meier (2020). ‘Geschlechterquoten in der Politik: Verbesserte deskriptive Repräsentation oder langfristige Veränderung politischer Kultur?’ in Dorothee Beck and Annette Henninger (eds.) Konkurrenz für das politische ‚Alpha-Männchen‘. Wandel und Herausforderungen nach 100 Jahren Frauenwahlrecht. Frankfurt: Ulrike Helmer.

Warasin, Markus, Johanna Kantola, Lise Rolandsen Agustín and Ciara Coughlan (2019). ‘Politicisation of Gender Equality in the European Parliament: Cohesion and Inter-Group Coalitions in Plenary and Committees’ in Petra Ahrens and Lise Rolandsen Agustin (eds.) Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies and Practices. London: Rowman and Littlefield/ECPR press, 141–158.

Ahrens, Petra (2019). ‘Working against the tide? Institutionalizing Gender Mainstreaming in the European Parliament’ in Petra Ahrens and Lise Rolandsen Agustin (eds.) Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies and Practices. London: Rowman&Littlefield/ECPR Press, 85–101.

Ahrens, Petra and Lise Rolandsen Agustin (2019). ‘Gendering the European Parliament: Introducing Structures, Policies, and Practices’ in Petra Ahrens and Lise Rolandsen Agustin (eds.) Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies and Practices. London: Rowman&Littlefield/ECPR Press, 1–15.

Meier, Petra, Petra Ahrens and Lise Rolandsen Agustin (2019). ‘*Gender*Power*? On the multiple relations between gender and power in the European Parliament’ in Petra Ahrens and Lise Rolandsen Agustin (eds.) Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies and Practices. London: Rowman&Littlefield/ECPR Press, 199–212.

Ahrens, Petra (2019). ‘Gender Equality and Intersectionality in Supranational “Equality CSOs”: A Mountain Skyline?’ in Jill Irvine, Sabine Lang, Celeste Montoya (eds.) Gendered Mobilizations and Intersectional Challenges: Contemporary Social Movements in Europe and North America. Rowman & Littlefield/ECPR Press, 244–261.

Ahrens, Petra and Anna van der Vleuten (2019). ‘EU Gender Equality Policies in Times of Crisis: different instruments, different actors, different outcomes’ in Ingrid Jungwirth and Carola Bauschke-Urban (eds.) Gender and Diversity Studies: European Perspectives. Wiesbaden: Barbara Budrich, 31–54.

Ahrens, Petra (2019). ‘Gleichstellungspolitik’ in Werner Weidenfeld and Wolfgang Wessels (eds.) Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2019. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 275–278.

Kantola, Johanna and Emanuela Lombardo (2018). ‘EU gender equality policies’ in Hubert Heinelt and Sybille Münch (eds.) Handbook of European Policy: Formulation, development and evaluation. Edward Elgar, 331.