Kartellisering ur ett genusperspektiv

Abstract

Cartelization from a Gender Perspective

The cartel party theory has generated a considerable research but not been discussed from a gender perspective. In general, the gender dimension was politicized later than the traditional cleavages that the cartel party theory discusses, which lead to an expectation that women delegates may be less affected by cartel tendencies, such as alienating from party grassroots, than men. The Swedish case in particular, however, also discloses that women representation to a considerable extent have been put forward by internal endeavors of parties, which resembles processes connected to cartelization. At the same time, research shows that women have evoked a stable and clear gender dimension in politics. Taken together, this might mean that strategies rooted in cartelization have come to undermine that same process. The article uses material from the Swedish Parliamentary Survey 1985-2010, Gothenburg University, to discuss these propositions.