Research Council funding for research on gendered electoral financing

The research project «MONEY TALKS: Gendered Electoral Financing in  Democratic and Democratizing States» at the Department of Comparative Politics, receieves funding as a FRIPRO/FRIHUMSAM project from The Norwegian Research Council (NRC). 

The NRC application was handed in by assistent professor of comparative politics, Ragnhild Louise Muriaas, together with Lars Svåsand and Vibeke Wang. In all, NRC received 153 applications in this category, and only 21 of these projects received funding. 

Read more on NRC's own web pages (Norwegian).

Gendered electoral financing 
The project analyzes the form, causes and particularly the consequences of gendered electoral financing focusing specifically on how such schemes - separate from or in conjunction with gender quotas - interact with electoral processes and institutions that tend to be gendered. It will do this through country-specific case studies and two-paired analysis of France, Malawi Kenya and the United Kingdom.