Articles by Andrea Krizsán

March 10, 2025

🌈 Who’s afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Understanding the debate over gender equality in Europe

Andrea Krizsán

In recent years, gender equality has become a major political battleground. At the heart of this conflict is the 2011 Istanbul Convention to combat violence against women. Andrea Krizsán and Conny Roggeband examine which factors drive support or opposition to the Convention, across a variety of European countries

March 4, 2024

🌈 The insidious link between autocratisation and gender-based violence

Andrea Krizsán

Women and sexual minorities are facing unprecedented levels of targeted political violence. Andrea Krizsan and Conny Roggeband argue that gender-based violence has become a tool for right-wing populist parties and governments to promote and sustain an exclusionary ideal of the nation and the ‘people’ as white, patriarchal, and heteronormative

March 6, 2023

🌈 The gendered face of democratic backsliding

Andrea Krizsán

Opposition to gender equality, and a crackdown on women’s rights, characterise the wave of autocratisation across many parts of the world. We often regard such misogyny against women as a deviant trait of individual political leaders. But this is a misunderstanding, write Conny Roggeband and Andrea Krizsán

Andrea Krizsán

Senior Research Fellow, Democracy Institute, Central European University, Budapest / Professor, School of Public Policy, Gender Studies Department, Central European University, Vienna

Andrea's main interest is in gender policy change in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Her current research projects analyse the gender aspects of democratic backsliding, and feminist contributions to struggles for democracy and democratisation.

Politicizing Gender and Democracy in the Context of the Istanbul Convention

Politicizing Gender and Democracy in the Context of the Istanbul Convention
Co-authored with Conny Roggegand, Palgrave 2021

Her most recent book is on opposition to the Istanbul Convention and its consequences for gender-based violence policies and democracy more widely.

She received the inaugural Emma Goldman Award in 2020 for her substantial contributions to the study of feminist and inequality issues in Europe.

She tweets @AndreaKrizsan1

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Articles by Andrea Krizsán

🌈 Who’s afraid of the Istanbul Convention? Understanding the debate over gender equality in Europe

🌈 The insidious link between autocratisation and gender-based violence

🌈 The gendered face of democratic backsliding

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