%0 Journal Article
%T Authoritarian Institutions and Women¡¯s Rights
%A Anne-Kathrin Kreft
%A Daniela Donno
%J Comparative Political Studies
%@ 1552-3829
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0010414018797954
%X While dictatorships perform worse than democracies in respect for most human rights, a large number of autocracies have prioritized the advancement of women¡¯s rights. We present a theory of authoritarian rights provision that focuses on the incentives for dictatorships to secure women¡¯s loyalty, and we identify the particular capacity of institutionalized party-based regimes to supply¡ªand capitalize from¡ªwomen¡¯s rights policies. Analyzing a comprehensive sample of authoritarian regimes from 1963 to 2009, we find that party-based regimes are associated with greater economic and political rights for women irrespective of whether they hold multiparty elections. A comparative exploration of authoritarian Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya sheds further light on these findings and examines alternative explanations. Our account of women¡¯s rights as a tool of autocratic party coalition-building contrasts with the provision of civil and associational rights¡ªso-called ¡°coordination goods¡±¡ªwhich represents a concession to the opposition and tends to accompany liberalization
%K women and politics
%K authoritarian regimes
%K women¡¯s rights
%K human rights
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0010414018797954