Party Variation in Religiosity and Women's Leadership: A Cross-National Perspective, 2008-2010

This study was compiled with the goal of looking beyond the national domestic level into individual party-level explanations for women's political leadership. The study consists of two parts which analyze the party level for women's ascendancy to political leadership. Part 1 focuses on an aggregate of 25 non-randomly selected countries, Part 2 focuses on Lebanon. The study records the level of religiosity of political parties, where it refers to religious components in the party's political platforms or the extent to which religion penetrates a party's political agendas. Both datasets examine party variation in religiosity, party structure, respondents' station within a parties' decision-making inner structures, and other party-level characteristics that may impact women's leadership in various political parties. Additional variables include identifiers for Muslim, Arab, and European states, level of secularism, election design, party design, and age of party.

本研究旨在超越国家内部层面，探究女性政治领导权在政党层面的个体解释。研究分为两部分，旨在分析女性在政治领导层中的晋升路径。第一部分聚焦于25个非随机选取的国家总体，第二部分专注于黎巴嫩。研究记录了政治党派的宗教程度，其中宗教程度指政治党派政治纲领中的宗教成分，或宗教对政党政治议程渗透的程度。两个数据集均考察了党派在宗教程度、党派结构、受访者所在党派决策内部结构的地位以及其他可能影响不同政治党派女性领导权的党派层面特征。此外，还包括了穆斯林、阿拉伯和欧洲国家的标识符、世俗化程度、选举设计、党派设计和党派成立年龄等变量。