The Reactive Left: Gender Equality and the Latin American Pink Tide

Blofield, Merike; Ewig, Christina; Piscopo, Jennifer M.

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“…Second, our study contributes to debates about the role of leftist political parties in advancing women's rights and representation. Scholars have considered how Latin American left governments shaped feminist policies (Blofield, Ewig, and Piscopo 2017; Friedman 2009; Heumann 2014; Kampwirth 2008; Lind 2012; Lind and Keating 2013) and women's legislative office (Friedman 2009; Funk, Hinojosa, and Piscopo 2017). Our results comport with much of this research in finding that party ideology matters in some cases but not in others.…”

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Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America

Araya

Hughes

Pérez‐Liñán

2020

American J Political Sci

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Can weak judicial institutions facilitate the advancement of women to the high courts? We explore the relationship between weak institutions and gender diversification by analyzing the consequences of judicial reshuffles in Latin America. Our theory predicts that institutional disruptions will facilitate the appointment of women justices, but only when left parties control the nomination process. We test this argument using difference‐in‐differences and dynamic panel models for 18 Latin American countries between 1961 and 2014. The analysis offers support for our hypothesis, but gains in gender diversification are modest in size and hard to sustain over time. Political reshuffles may produce short‐term advances for women in the judiciary, but they do not represent a path to substantive progress in gender equality.

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Section: Conclusion and Contributionsmentioning

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Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America

Araya

Hughes

Pérez‐Liñán

2020

American J Political Sci

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“…Women's organizations often play a key role in the elaboration of gender equality policies (Banaszak, 2009;Beckwith, 2011;Haussman and Sauer, 2007;Horton, 2015;Suh, 2011;Blofield et al, 2017). The role of women's organizations in the elaboration of gender equality policies is often analyzed through the concept of "institutionalization", which has been defined as "a process of social movements traversing the official terrain of formal politics and engaging with authoritative institutions such as the legislature, the judiciary, the state, and political parties to enhance their collective ability to achieve the movement's goals" (Suh, 2011: 443).…”

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Between political discourses and pragmatic policy-making: Gender equality policies in Bolivia under Evo Morales (2006-2017)

Castaño

2020

Rev. Esp. Cienc. Polít.

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This present article investigates the processes of elaboration of gender equality policies under populist governments, focusing on the paradigmatic case of MAS government in Bolivia. Through interviews and documental analysis, the article examines how MAS applied its conceptions of "people" and "elite" to the women's organizations that intervened in policy-making processes in the field of gender equality, accusing feminist NGOs of being part of "the elite" and praising indigenous women's social organizations as representatives of "the people". However, the government included feminist NGOs in the policy-making processes; which shows the existence of a contradiction between the anti-elite populist discourse and pragmatism in policy-making.

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“…In economic terms, the presence of women in the workforce and as heads of households has also increased (Chant & Craske, ). The region experienced left‐wing administrations, female presidents, and left‐wing administrations headed by female presidents (Blofield, Ewig, & Piscopo, ; Reyes‐Housholder, ). Yet, despite increases in the political and economic participation of women, the region still accounts for major shortages in terms of reproductive rights (Blofield, ), gendered asset distribution (Deere & León, ), gender pay‐gap (Chant & Craske, ), domestic violence (Morrison, Buvinic, & Shifter, ), and what Došek et al () call, the invisible glass ceilings that female leaders face, including “cash ceilings” that underfund female politicians, and discrimination practices that reproduce male dominance.…”

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States, elites, and inequality in Latin America

López

2018

Sociology Compass

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In this article, I review the literature on elites and inequality in Latin America with a focus on the emergence of uneven state structures and how they came to foster the needs of elites for protection. States in Latin America are traditionally thought of as facilitating processes of top-down modernization that transformed traditional agrarian economies into complex urban polities, while maintaining extreme inequal-

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The Reactive Left: Gender Equality and the Latin American Pink Tide

Cited by 77 publications

References 32 publications

Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America

Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America

Between political discourses and pragmatic policy-making: Gender equality policies in Bolivia under Evo Morales (2006-2017)

States, elites, and inequality in Latin America

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