{"id":36,"date":"2026-04-23T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/gpol\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:05:53","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/gpol\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-larger-font-size\"><strong>Objectives \u00b7 Data<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender has become a defining axis of political competition across contemporary democracies. Debates around feminism, sexual violence, reproductive rights, and gender identity have gained unprecedented visibility, with tangible electoral consequences documented across Western Europe and the United States. Yet despite this growing salience, the dynamics of gender-related polarization remain poorly understood. Most research analyzes individual gender issues in isolation, while studies of polarization continue to focus primarily on partisan divisions. <em>GPOL <\/em>addresses this gap by developing a comprehensive, longitudinal framework that treats gender polarization as a multidimensional political process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Word Packages and&nbsp;Objectives<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WP1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Characterize and explain gender gaps in political attitudes, vote choice and ideological orientations, with an intersectional perspective that accounts for age and socioeconomic status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WP2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Map the structure of public opinion across a broad range of gender-related issues \u2014 from quotas and parental leave to abortion, gender-based violence, and gender self-determination \u2014 and to analyze how these attitudes are formed, structured, and linked to political behavior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WP3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examine how citizens&nbsp;perceive feminism, measuring both positive identification and negative affect toward the feminist movement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Data<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>GPOL <\/em>relies primarily on a longitudinal approach. Its backbone is the <a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/grdec\/panel-polat\/\">POLAT<\/a> panel, an ongoing Spanish political attitudes survey spanning more than 16&nbsp;waves (2010\u20132027). GPOL will add two new panel waves and a cross-sectional survey (GPOL Survey 2026, N\u22482,000), enabling the study of within-individual attitude change over time.&nbsp;The&nbsp;team will&nbsp;utilize&nbsp;hybrid panel models&nbsp;to disentangle changes within individuals over time, as well as&nbsp;decomposition models&nbsp;and&nbsp;factor analysis&nbsp;to explain the structure of gender gaps and attitudes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives \u00b7 Data Gender has become a defining axis of political competition across contemporary democracies. Debates around feminism, sexual violence, reproductive rights, and gender identity have gained unprecedented visibility, with tangible electoral consequences documented across Western Europe and the United States. Yet despite this growing salience, the dynamics of gender-related polarization remain poorly understood. Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3240,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/gpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/gpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/gpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/gpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/gpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/gpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/gpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/gpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}