Legal Inequality and Federalism

Domestic Violence Laws in the Argentine Provinces

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3035871
AutoresCatalina Smulovitz (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume57
Fascículo3
Páginas1-26
Data de publicação2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-2456.2015.00277.x
OpenAlexW2145994102
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas17

This article shows that the institutional design of Argentine federalism allows for differences in the protective scope of the provincial domestic violence laws. It holds that the broad legislative capacities of subnational districts enable the working of political and social local factors, which, in turn, determine heterogeneity in these laws' protective scope. It analyzes, compares, and measures 37 laws on domestic violence sanctioned between 1992 and 2009. It advances a methodology to measure their differences and it evaluates the impact local factors have on legal variations across jurisdictions. The article shows that the protective scope of these laws is determined by the intensity of the local electoral competition and by the strength of women's organizational capacity. Results also show that time matters insofar as it allows for the diffusion of more protective laws

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