Giuseppe Carteny

📢 New publication out! Mapping party competition on gender-related issues in Europe There has been growing discussion about the politicization of gender in European politics. We wanted to take a broad, systematic look at it. 👇🧵

The paper was completed despite life throwing some serious curveballs our way, which inevitably delayed the work. The understanding we received meant a lot. I’m very grateful to @tantovale.bsky.social, the reviewers, and then to the #Frontiers team, for their support and patience.

📢 New publication out! Mapping party competition on gender-related issues in Europe There has been growing discussion about the politicization of gender in European politics. We wanted to take a broad, systematic look at it. 👇🧵

A more personal note: this paper also feels a little like the closing of a chapter. It comes at the end of almost three years of work within the @horizoneu.bsky.social project #UNTWIST. An experience that has meant a great deal to me, professionally and personally.

📢 New publication out! Mapping party competition on gender-related issues in Europe There has been growing discussion about the politicization of gender in European politics. We wanted to take a broad, systematic look at it. 👇🧵

❗ Important limitation: measuring positions computationally remains difficult. Opposition to gender equality does not necessarily appear as an explicit negative sentence. It can work through framing, discourse or selective appropriation—and may be more visible in political communication.

📢 New publication out! Mapping party competition on gender-related issues in Europe There has been growing discussion about the politicization of gender in European politics. We wanted to take a broad, systematic look at it. 👇🧵

Parties differ not only in whether they support or oppose particular claims, but also in which gender-related issues they choose to emphasize in the first place.

📢 New publication out! Mapping party competition on gender-related issues in Europe There has been growing discussion about the politicization of gender in European politics. We wanted to take a broad, systematic look at it. 👇🧵

From 412 manually coded manifestos, we use transformer-based topic classification + zero-shot stance classification. This extends the analysis to 1,972 manifestos, 511 parties, 29 European countries and more than six decades of party competition, from 1961 to 2025.

📢 New publication out! Mapping party competition on gender-related issues in Europe There has been growing discussion about the politicization of gender in European politics. We wanted to take a broad, systematic look at it. 👇🧵

📢 The Euromanifesto Study 2024 Documents are now available! We collected, checked and systematised electoral programmes and campaign materials from across Europe for the 2024 European Parliament elections. A new resource for studying the 2024 EP campaign 🧵

A huge thanks to Philipp König, @divyamani.bsky.social, @annreinl.bsky.social, @rosanavarrete.bsky.social, @alexhartland.bsky.social, Spencer J. Corp, and Sayman Johannes Rohleder-Stribl for their work collecting, checking, documenting and preparing the corpus.

📢 The Euromanifesto Study 2024 Documents are now available! We collected, checked and systematised electoral programmes and campaign materials from across Europe for the 2024 European Parliament elections. A new resource for studying the 2024 EP campaign 🧵

What does the corpus include? 📄 Full election manifestos 📑 Shorter electoral programmes 🗳️ Other relevant campaign material where no comparable programme was available Plus metadata on parties, electoral lists, document type, source, vote shares and more.

📢 The Euromanifesto Study 2024 Documents are now available! We collected, checked and systematised electoral programmes and campaign materials from across Europe for the 2024 European Parliament elections. A new resource for studying the 2024 EP campaign 🧵

New Publication out! 🔥 Italy’s right-wing politics has changed dramatically over the past two decades. With @gippone.bsky.social and @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social we started from a basic question: Why has the radical right surged inside Italy’s right coalition? Radicalisation or something different?

Nonetheless, our study offers a complete account of how the relative weight of ideological and immigration attitudes reshaped voting probabilities inside Italy’s right-wing coalition — suggesting ideological sorting rather than contagion.

New Publication out! 🔥 Italy’s right-wing politics has changed dramatically over the past two decades. With @gippone.bsky.social and @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social we started from a basic question: Why has the radical right surged inside Italy’s right coalition? Radicalisation or something different?

Examining the coalition reveals a mechanism: Anti-immigration voters previously voted for moderate parties, and then moved towards radical ones. This indicates a form of ideological sorting rather than a clear radicalisation of the centre-right electorate as a whole.

New Publication out! 🔥 Italy’s right-wing politics has changed dramatically over the past two decades. With @gippone.bsky.social and @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social we started from a basic question: Why has the radical right surged inside Italy’s right coalition? Radicalisation or something different?

Anti-immigration sentiment has gained explanatory power, especially in 2022. These attitudes have become a stronger and more independent from ideological self-placement – this growth wouldn’t appear without controlling for left-right self-placement.

New Publication out! 🔥 Italy’s right-wing politics has changed dramatically over the past two decades. With @gippone.bsky.social and @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social we started from a basic question: Why has the radical right surged inside Italy’s right coalition? Radicalisation or something different?

Italy is a unique case in Europe: since the mid-1990s, radical and centre-right parties have governed together repeatedly, and since 2018 the balance of power has flipped — the radical right now dominates the coalition.