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Nuffield College Postdoctoral Researcher Gonzalo Di Landro has been awarded the 2026 GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Social Sciences for his article, “Party Behaviour and the Gender Voting Gap,” published in the British Journal of Political Science. 

The article examines how political parties’ support for gender equality in the labour market affects differences between women’s and men’s voting behaviour. Drawing on three decades of public opinion and other cross-national data from 16 Western democracies, Gonzalo finds that increases in women’s participation in the labour force are associated with greater support among women for left-wing parties relative to men – but only when those parties strongly support gender-egalitarian labour-market policies. 

Gonzalo said: 

"As a current Postdoctoral Researcher at Nuffield, I am thrilled to contribute to the College’s prestige through this award." 

The annual GESIS Klingemann Prize for Best CSES Scholarship recognises outstanding research making extensive use of data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). Sponsored by the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, the prize is named in honour of Professor Dr Hans-Dieter Klingemann, co-founder of CSES and a leading scholar of cross-national electoral research. 

In selecting the article, the 2026 prize committee praised its clear and compelling narrative, its focus on the politically consequential subject of the female vote, and its emphasis on the choices parties make. The committee also highlighted the scale of the research, including an original party-election dataset spanning three decades and 16 Western democracies. 

Gonzalo joins former Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Vicente Valentim, who received the Klingemann Prize in 2022 for his article, ‘Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support’. 

Read ‘Party Behaviour and the Gender Voting Gap’ in the British Journal of Political Science.