Challenges to Democratic Practices and Discourses in the European Parliament : Feminist Perspectives on the Politics of Political Groups

The European Parliament is now host to a significant number of politicians from radical right populist parties, leaving the Parliament to deal with illiberal elements within its structures. At the heart of the European Union's democratic values is a commitment to gender equality, a commitment hotly contested by illiberal actors and radical right populists. The research objective of this article is to use feminist political theories of democracy to understand the challenges and possibilities f...

Feminist institutional responses to anti-gender politics in parliamentary contexts

In the context of the prevalence of anti-gender politics in Europe, political institutions such as parliaments have become arenas of political struggles around gender and gender equality. While feminist scholarship has studied anti-gender politics, less attention has been paid to feminist responses to such opposition. The contribution of this article is to conceptualize feminist responses to anti-gender politics within political institutions, which we name feminist institutional responses. Th...

Lyman-$α$ radiation pressure regulates star formation efficiency

Order-unity star formation efficiencies (SFE) in early galaxies may explain the overabundance of bright galaxies observed by JWST at high redshift. Here we show that Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiation pressure limits the gas mass converted into stars, particularly in primordial environments. We develop a shell model including Ly$\alpha$ feedback, and validate it with one-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations. To account for Ly$\alpha$ resonant scattering, we adopt the most recent fo...

Search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to a τ lepton pair in proton-proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ TeV