TY - JOUR
T1 - Women's rights in democratic transitions
T2 - A global sequence analysis, 1900–2012
AU - Wang, Yi Ting
AU - Lindenfors, Patrik
AU - SundstrÖm, Aksel
AU - Jansson, Fredrik
AU - Paxton, Pamela
AU - Lindberg, Staffan I.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Michael Coppedge, Ellen Lust, Gerardo Munck, Andreas Schedler, Georgina Waylen, Matthew Charles Wilson and the participants of the 2015 Varieties of Democracy Conference, the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, the Gothenburg Workshop on Gender and Politics, and the Swedish Political Science Association Workshop on Comparative Politics for their comments on earlier versions of this article. This research project was supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Grant M13-0559:1, PI: Staffan I. Lindberg, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; the Swedish Research Council, PI: Staffan I. Lindberg, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Jan Teorell, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden; and by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to Wallenberg Academy Fellow Staffan I. Lindberg, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; as well as by internal grants from the Vice-Chancellor’s office, the Dean of the College of Social Sciences and the Department of Political Science at University of Gothenburg. We performed simulations and other computational tasks using resources provided by the Notre Dame Center for Research Computing (CRC) through the High Performance Computing section, and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at the National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden. We specifically acknowledge the assistance of In-Saeng Suh at CRC and Johan Raber at SNIC in facilitating our use of their respective systems.
Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Michael Coppedge, Ellen Lust, Gerardo Munck, Andreas Schedler, Georgina Waylen, Matthew Charles Wilson and the participants of the 2015 Varieties of Democracy Conference, the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, the Gothenburg Workshop on Gender and Politics, and the Swedish Political Science Association Workshop on Comparative Politics for their comments on earlier versions of this article. This research project was supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Grant M13-0559:1, PI: Staffan I. Lindberg, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; the Swedish Research Council, PI: Staffan I. Lindberg, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Jan Teorell, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden; and by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to Wallenberg Academy Fellow Staffan I. Lindberg, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; as well as by internal grants from?the Vice-Chancellor's office, the Dean of the College of Social Sciences and the Department of Political Science at University of Gothenburg. We performed simulations and other computational tasks using resources provided by the Notre Dame Center for Research Computing (CRC) through the High Performance Computing section, and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at the National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden. We specifically acknowledge the assistance of In-Saeng Suh at CRC and Johan Raber at SNIC in facilitating our use of their respective systems.
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© 2017 European Consortium for Political Research
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
N2 - What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? This article explores the impact of granting civil rights in authoritarian regimes and especially the gendered aspect of this process. It argues that both men's and women's liberal rights are essential conditions for democratisation to take place: providing both women and men rights reduces an inequality that affects half of the population, thus increasing the costs of repression and enabling the formation of women's organising – historically important to spark protests in initial phases of democratisation. This argument is tested empirically using data that cover 173 countries over the years 1900–2012 and contain more nuanced measures than commonly used. Through novel sequence analysis methods, the results suggest that in order to gain electoral democracy a country first needs to furnish civil liberties to both women and men.
AB - What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? This article explores the impact of granting civil rights in authoritarian regimes and especially the gendered aspect of this process. It argues that both men's and women's liberal rights are essential conditions for democratisation to take place: providing both women and men rights reduces an inequality that affects half of the population, thus increasing the costs of repression and enabling the formation of women's organising – historically important to spark protests in initial phases of democratisation. This argument is tested empirically using data that cover 173 countries over the years 1900–2012 and contain more nuanced measures than commonly used. Through novel sequence analysis methods, the results suggest that in order to gain electoral democracy a country first needs to furnish civil liberties to both women and men.
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U2 - 10.1111/1475-6765.12201
DO - 10.1111/1475-6765.12201
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85016234943
VL - 56
SP - 735
EP - 756
JO - European Journal of Political Research
JF - European Journal of Political Research
SN - 0304-4130
IS - 4
ER -