RECOVER-GEU presents an innovative gendered perspective on EU crisis politics and policies, integrating theoretical and methodological approaches from political economy, European Union affairs, gender studies, and policy analysis. The project aims to understand how the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming within the multilevel governance framework of the EU is moderated domestically by women’s representation.
RECOVER-GEU addresses whether women's substantive representation extends beyond parliamentary debates to (fiscal) policy outcomes in the case of the Covid-19 crisis and the National Recovery and Response Plans. The project provides a timely gendered assessment of the ongoing flagship EU response to the pandemic and offers insights into the drivers of heterogeneous gender mainstreaming in the recovery, enriching the debate on the future of EU economic governance and gender equality policies.
This study is methodologically innovative as it improves text-as-data approaches for classifying gender-sensitive policy-relevant content and extends civically engaged research methodologies to the multilevel, multilingual, and cross-country context of EU politics and policies.