Women Presidents in Latin America

Jalalzai, Farida

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“…Critics can, for example, overshadow the significance and novelty of electing a country’s first woman president by crediting her triumph to exceptional circumstances that create space for outsiders (Jalalzai 2013; Jalalzai 2016; Skard 2015; Schwindt-Bayer 2010) – such as a democratic transition, a post-conflict situation, severe political mistrust. Other counter-narratives link women’s rise to power to privileged connections with a male political leader, that is, wives/widows, daughters and protégées (see Hinojosa 2012, chapter 7).…”

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Presidents’ Sex and Popularity: Baselines, Dynamics and Policy Performance

Carlin¹,

Carreras²,

Love³

2019

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Public approval is a crucial source of executive power in presidential systems. Does the public support female and male presidents similarly? Combining insights from gender and politics research with psychological evidence, this study theorizes sex-based differentials in popularity based on more general expectations linking gender stereotypes to diverging performance evaluations. Using quarterly analyses of eighteen Latin American democracies, South Korea and the Philippines, the analyses compare the levels, dynamics, and policy performance of macro-approval for male and female presidents. As expected, female presidents are less popular, experience exaggerated approval dynamics and their approval is more responsive to security and corruption (though not economic) outcomes. These findings have clear implications for our understandings of mass politics, political accountability and presidentialism.

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Section: Psychic Handicaps: Exceptions Tokens Double Standards and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Presidents’ Sex and Popularity: Baselines, Dynamics and Policy Performance

Carlin¹,

Carreras²,

Love³

2019

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…El poder ejecutivo es la rama más prestigiosa y poderosa del gobierno en la que, históricamente, los varones han ocupado la mayoría de los cargos (Jalalzai 2016). A pesar de la creencia actualmente compartida en las democracias de que el poder ejecutivo debe ser el órgano más representativo de la población (Borrelli 2002), el acceso de las mujeres a los cargos ministeriales varía drásticamente, tanto en el tiempo como a través de los países.…”

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Evaluación de la presencia de mujeres en gabinetes subnacionales de Argentina (1992-2016)

Barnes

Ciocci

Lopreite

2019

Rev. cienc. polít. (Santiago)

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¿Cuáles son los factores que explican la inclusión de las mujeres en puestos políticos subnacionales? La literatura convencional ha examinado las designaciones de mujeres en gabinetes nacionales, pero escasa atención se ha prestado a los gobiernos provinciales. Para abordar este vacío, adoptamos el enfoque de oferta y demanda. De este modo, utilizando una base de datos sobre las 24 jurisdicciones subnacionales argentinas desde 1992 a 2016, encontramos que los factores del lado de la demanda son más relevantes. Esto se explica, en primer término, ya que la probabilidad de que sean nombradas ministras aumenta junto al tamaño del gabinete, cuando hay una gobernadora mujer y, finalmente, si el gobernador pertenece a la coalición peronista. Por otro lado, se ven perjudicadas a medida que aumenta el contingente legislativo del partido del gobernador. Palabras clave: mujeres en gabinetes, representación de mujeres en la política subnacional, liderazgo femenino, género y política subnacional, Argentina

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“…Some relevant examples are Bolsa Família in Brazil, Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) in Argentina, and the Chilean programme Bono por hijo and solidarity basic pension for people within the 60% lowest income. Thanks to these policy actions, extreme poverty decreased (TIELEMANS, 2014 andJALALZAI, 2015).…”

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“…It is important to note that successful governmental actions on gender equality depend not only on the political will of a given President. As Jalalzai (2015) argues, if the president has no support in parliament, it is highly unlikely that she will push her political agenda through. Hence the importance of political pressure of organized feminist groups in civil society, working in synergy with femocrats, and women's policy agencies, often associated with state feminism, as discussed in the previous section.…”

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Gender Justice in Feminist Analysis of Public Policies in Argentina, Brazil and Chile

Muñoz-Cabrera

Rangel

2018

Rev. Estud. Fem.

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This paper presents part of the authors’ postdoctoral research at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. It focuses on the transformation processes triggered by feminist-driven governmental actions in Brazil, Argentina and Chile over the last few years, especially during the terms of Cristina Fernández, Dilma Rousseff and Michele Bachelet. Using concepts and theoretical insights from specialized literature, we address questions about lobbying and disputes in the political arena in order to understand the impact of feminisms on public policies, and the extent to which these policies relate to the intersectional nature of discrimination (gender, race / ethnicity, class). Four major public policies areas are examined, namely economic autonomy, social facilities, health, and violence, from three analytical angles: 1) the role of women’s policy agencies in policy making processes; 2) Gender-Aware Public Policies during the mandates of female presidents in Argentina, Brasil e Chile; 3) the intersectionality of gender justice in public policy-making.

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Women Presidents in Latin America

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Presidents’ Sex and Popularity: Baselines, Dynamics and Policy Performance

Presidents’ Sex and Popularity: Baselines, Dynamics and Policy Performance

Evaluación de la presencia de mujeres en gabinetes subnacionales de Argentina (1992-2016)

Gender Justice in Feminist Analysis of Public Policies in Argentina, Brazil and Chile

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