Coding competitive authoritarianism

How is Political Violence Gendered? Disentangling Motives, Forms, and Impacts

“…Recent efforts to conceptualize the barriers and resistance to women’s political participation (Bardall, 2016; Krook, 2017; Piscopo, 2016; Piscopo and Walsh, 2020; Sen et al, 2019) offer new opportunities for dialogue with scholars working on political violence. This article connects comparative politics scholarship from gender and politics—which has focused on resistance to women’s political participation—with the literature on political violence from international relations.…”

“…The fact that different approaches generate different understandings of what phenomena count as violence underscores an urgent need for conceptual clarity and better methodological approaches. To introduce greater analytic precision, we build on classifications from Bardall (2016) and propose a framework for identifying gendered political violence, which, following feminist understandings of violence against women as a continuum, recognizes a range of acts. For each act, our framework distinguishes between three distinct but equally important elements: motives, forms, and impacts.…”

¿Reformas constitucionales inconstitucionales? La eventual aplicación en España de un paradigma emergente en el derecho comparado

“…O el llamado abusive constitutionalism (Albert, 2015;Doyle, 2017;González-Jácome, 2017;Kosař y Šipulová, 2018;Landau, 2013;Roznai, 2015;Tushnet, 2014). O el bautizado como competitive authoritarianism (Bardall, 2016;Cameron, 2018;Levitsky y Way, 2002;Levitsky y Way, 2010). O, por último, y recientemente en España, aunque de fuente académica extranjera, la rule of law backsliding (Faggiani, 2019).…”