International incentives for women’s rights in dictatorships
| Autor: | Daniela Donno, Sara Fox, Joshua Kaasik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject education 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies International community 02 engineering and technology Dictatorship Democracy 0506 political science Incentive Political science Political economy 050602 political science & public administration Democracy promotion health care economics and organizations media_common |
| Zdroj: | Comparative Political Studies. 55:451-492 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3829 0010-4140 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00104140211024306 |
| Popis: | Democracy and women’s rights are integrally “bundled” by the international community. This means that dictatorships can signal adherence to international norms by demonstrating progress on gender equality, often in a manner that is consistent with the perpetuation of authoritarian rule. Using a new dataset of de jure advances in women’s rights, we show that dictatorships have vigorously enacted gender-related legislation, at a rate that surpasses democracies in the developing world. This pattern is shaped by international (Western) pressure: Among autocracies, foreign aid dependence and international nongovernmental organization shaming are associated with legal advances in women’s rights, but not with reforms in other, more politically costly areas related to elections, political competition, and repression. Our account therefore highlights selective compliance as a form of adaptation to international pressure and underscores the role of international incentives as a complement to domestic “bottom-up” pressure for women’s rights in dictatorships. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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