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- Title
Authoritarian Gender Equality Policy Making: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Russia.
- Authors
Johnson, Janet Elise
- Abstract
This article provides an analytical framework for understanding why and how many authoritarian regimes have recently adopted reforms that address gender equality. I illustrate and hone the framework by tracing three policy-making processes on domestic violence in Russia, an important and least-likely case for such reforms. While recent scholarship finds the importance of international leverage, strategic actions by women's groups, and regime interest in sidelining religious extremists, this study highlights other opportunities and agents and specifies authoritarian mechanisms such as intra-elite conflict, signaling between the autocrat and elites, and selective responsiveness. Drawing on the scholarship on authoritarian regime dynamics, policy making in Russia, and gender policy making, this study contributes to the literature on the relationship between gender and regime type by focusing on the micrologics of authoritarian policy making.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; DOMESTIC violence; GENDER inequality; POLITICAL systems; AUTHORITARIANISM; SCHOLARLY method; RELIGIOUS extremists; WOMEN'S societies &; clubs
- Publication
Politics & Gender, 2023, Vol 19, Issue 4, p1035
- ISSN
1743-923X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1743923X2300003X