THE EUROPEANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTIES THROUGH THE GENDER COMPONENT. CASE-STUDY: THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN ROMANIA’S 2014 EUROPEAN ELECTIONS
Journal Title: Challenges of the Knowledge Society - Year 2015, Vol 5, Issue 0
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyse if the national political parties experience an Europeanization process through the harmonization of their principles and practice with the ones of the European political groups they are part of. In this regard, I shall use the gender dimension as an Europeanization factor. I choose the Social Democratic Party as a case study because it is the biggest left party in Romania, because it is affiliated to the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats (the second biggest political group in the European Parliament) Parliament and because of the ideological premises that a left party would encourage the increase of women's political participation. The analytical approach will be focused on if and how the Social-Democratic Party’s political behaviour regarding women’s access to political participation changes when it interacts with the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats. More precisely, I shall correlate the ideological position of the Social-Democratic Party, its political behaviour when it comes to elections at the national level, on one hand, and European elections, on the other hand. The main elements of the case study will be the gender dimension of the selection process for the party’s candidates for the elections and of the professionalization of the proposed candidates. The theoretical framework of the paper is represented by political representation theories and the ones regarding the Europeanization of political parties.
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Ioana Antoaneta DODI
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