POL_S 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: The Lancet
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Explaining domestic violence policy outcomes in chile and argentina. In chile, abortion is illegal in all cases, cedaw has not been ratifies, and the country overall remains culturally traditional. Argentina has political gender quotas, sexual health and policy reforms, and an overall more liberal political climate (specifically compared to chile). However, chile outperforms argentina when measuring domestic violence and policies against it. The two leading factors for this are state architectures (like department/ministry), macro-level institutional factors, political leader gender policies, and effective implementation. Chile"s effectiveness on fighting domestic violence can be contributed to the women"s policy agency they made which hold legislative power and can monitor, report, and implement policies and domestic issues. Prevalence of intimate partner violence: findings from the who multi-country study on women"s health and domestic violence.
