The Right-Wing Backlash in Brazil and Beyond

Payne, Leigh A.; Santos, Andreza Aruska de Souza

doi:10.1017/s1743923x20000057

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“…Alarmed by the rapid rise of conservative forces around the world, however, concerns about the threat of conservatism on women's rights have been reignited (Kováts, 2018;Biroli and Caminotti, 2020;Payne and de Souza Santos, 2020). In assessing the impact of ideology on women's rights, most existing research has focused on the role of politicians and parties in influencing policy.…”

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Can conservatism make women more vulnerable to violence?

Araújo¹,

Gatto²

2021

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Violence against women (VAW) affects at least 35% of women worldwide. The need to combat VAW is seemingly noncontroversial: As existing work shows, ideology does not explain governments' propensity to adopt anti-VAW legislation. Yet, effectively implementing anti-VAW legislation requires complex policy frameworks at odds with conservative values. Voters' preferences can meaningfully influence policy outputs, so can electoral conservatism make women more vulnerable to violence? Employing data from 5,570 Brazilian municipalities, we find that conservatism in the electorate is associated with the adoption of fewer anti-VAW policies. With data from a nationally-representative survey of Brazilian respondents (N=2,086), we then show that conservative voters are less likely to prioritize the need for tackling VAW. That is, the adoption of fewer anti-VAW policies in conservative municipalities reflects conservative voters’ policy preferences. Critically, our results suggest that in contexts where the electorate holds conservative preferences, policy responsiveness may incur costs to women's lives.

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Can conservatism make women more vulnerable to violence?

Araújo¹,

Gatto²

2021

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“…Alarmed by the rapid rise of conservative forces around the world, however, concerns about the threat of conservatism on women’s rights have been reignited (Biroli & Caminotti, 2020; Kováts, 2018; Payne & de Souza Santos, 2020). In assessing the impact of ideology on women’s rights, most existing research has focused on the role of politicians and parties in influencing policy.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Conservatism Make Women More Vulnerable to Violence?

Araújo

Gatto

2021

Comparative Political Studies

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Violence against women (VAW) affects at least 35% of women worldwide. The need to combat VAW is seemingly noncontroversial: As existing work shows, ideology does not explain governments’ propensity to adopt anti-VAW legislation. Yet, effectively implementing anti-VAW legislation requires complex policy frameworks at odds with conservative values. Voters’ preferences can meaningfully influence policy outputs, so can electoral conservatism make women more vulnerable to violence? Employing data from 5570 Brazilian municipalities, we find that conservatism in the electorate is associated with the adoption of fewer anti-VAW policies. With data from a nationally representative survey of Brazilian respondents ( N = 2086), we then show that conservative voters are less likely to prioritize the need for tackling VAW. That is, the adoption of fewer anti-VAW policies in conservative municipalities reflects conservative voters’ policy preferences. Critically, our results suggest that in contexts where the electorate holds conservative preferences, policy responsiveness may incur costs to women’s lives.

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“…Critical studies scholars challenged the idea of cascading liberal norms by pointing to U.S. hegemony, Big Power politics, and egoistic interests of the imperialist world (Rogers, 2018). Scholars have also noted the rise of right-wing movements in particular countries and on the global scale more generally, including antigender campaigns (Pankowski, 2010;Payne, 2020). Even though the phenomenon of illiberal "norm cascade" is still very poorly researched, Kuhar and Paternotte (2017) show how antigender campaigns have extended beyond Western Europe to other parts of the world.…”

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Women’s Rights and the Feminists’ “Dirty Plans”: Media Discourses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia

Andreeva

Drozhashchikh

Nelaeva

2020

Affilia

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In this brief, the authors examine Russian media discourses on domestic violence during the COVID-19 global pandemic. With the introduction of restrictive measures against the virus, such as physical distancing measures, cordoning off cities, a 2-week travel quarantine, and others, media reports started to emphasize growing numbers of domestic violence cases and the insufficiency of measures to help the victims. Russian media frequently linked the incidents of violence under lockdown to the absence of adequate legislative measures. Importantly, Russian media reports referenced a proposed draft law on domestic violence that had been actively debated throughout the second half of 2019 but was not adopted. Traditionalist groups, who believed the special law was not necessary, countered media reports insisting that family remained the safest place for people under the pandemic. Drawing on a constructivist paradigm and using critical discourse analysis and content analysis, this article examines media representations of domestic violence during the COVID-19 health pandemic, as well as media narratives over the perception of the state faced with the two insurmountable tasks: to contain the epidemic and protect the most vulnerable members of the society. We argue that despite the increasing influence of traditionalist ideas in Russian foreign and domestic policy-making, the COVID-19 pandemic can provide human rights activists and social workers with a renewed opportunity to frame the necessity of a special domestic violence law as means to protect the interests of the most vulnerable members of the society during crisis situations.

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The Right-Wing Backlash in Brazil and Beyond

Cited by 24 publications

References 13 publications

Can conservatism make women more vulnerable to violence?

Can conservatism make women more vulnerable to violence?

Can Conservatism Make Women More Vulnerable to Violence?

Women’s Rights and the Feminists’ “Dirty Plans”: Media Discourses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia

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