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Submit your abstract before May 29th.
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This suggests that the political outcomes of the Green Gender Gap are shaped by country-specific contexts, such as party-system characteristics, issue salience, and the availability of credible green political alternatives.
Next, I find the Green Gender Gap is not a Western European phenomenon. Across Southern and Central/Eastern Europe, men consistently express less concern about climate and environmental issues than women.
V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025.
Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius.
Largest declines came, by far, in the US.
This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.