UNTWIST: Policy recommendations to regain feminist losers as mainstream voters

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UNTWIST: Policy recommendations to regain feminist losers as mainstream voters

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Abstract (Englisch)	UNTWIST aims to promote gender equality as a core value of the EU, defending it from the emerging threat that the oppositional genderrhetoric from extreme populist parties represents. By developing policy recommendations that uphold gender equality as both a value anda way of life, our project will contribute to shaping the global future, thus fulfilling relevant objectives in the EU’s political agenda for theperiod 2019–2024. By understanding if extreme populist parties are acting as niche parties, substantively representing (but also twisting)the needs and demands of citizens “at the margins”, who feel abandoned or disempowered by current mainstream feminist discoursesand policies, it will co-create alternative ways of addressing those citizens. Thus, developing, and implementing new policies that cancounter gender-equality-repressive strategies and the policies of extreme populist parties. Representative democracies will consequentlybe reinvigorated, and the citizenship empowered, by a better safeguarding of gender equality. UNTWIST’s main working strategy towardthat end will consist of empowering (non-radical/populist) parties in Europe to improve their representation of the gender-based interestsof the citizenry through the definition, enhancement and transfer of a policy recommendation handbook with evidence-based policyrecommendations that: 1) help mainstream parties improve their substantive representation of sex- and gender-based needs and demandsin ways that diminish the appeal of extreme populist messages (untwisting oppositional gender messages, particularly from right-wingpopulism); and 2) contributes to the widening horizon of gender expectations and overcomes current “gender fatigue” among citizens.The improvement in substantive democratic representation by these parties will decrease citizens' interest in the anti-feminist messagesof radical or populist parties.

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UNTWIST aims to promote gender equality as a core value of the EU, defending it from the emerging threat that the oppositional genderrhetoric from extreme populist parties represents. By developing policy recommendations that uphold gender equality as both a value anda way of life, our project will contribute to shaping the global future, thus fulfilling relevant objectives in the EU’s political agenda for theperiod 2019–2024. By understanding if extreme populist parties are acting as niche parties, substantively representing (but also twisting)the needs and demands of citizens “at the margins”, who feel abandoned or disempowered by current mainstream feminist discoursesand policies, it will co-create alternative ways of addressing those citizens. Thus, developing, and implementing new policies that cancounter gender-equality-repressive strategies and the policies of extreme populist parties. Representative democracies will consequentlybe reinvigorated, and the citizenship empowered, by a better safeguarding of gender equality. UNTWIST’s main working strategy towardthat end will consist of empowering (non-radical/populist) parties in Europe to improve their representation of the gender-based interestsof the citizenry through the definition, enhancement and transfer of a policy recommendation handbook with evidence-based policyrecommendations that: 1) help mainstream parties improve their substantive representation of sex- and gender-based needs and demandsin ways that diminish the appeal of extreme populist messages (untwisting oppositional gender messages, particularly from right-wingpopulism); and 2) contributes to the widening horizon of gender expectations and overcomes current “gender fatigue” among citizens.The improvement in substantive democratic representation by these parties will decrease citizens' interest in the anti-feminist messagesof radical or populist parties.