Foreshadowing Democratic Decay: Nicaragua's Violence against Women Policy Advances and Reversals as a Canary in the Coal Mine for Women Worldwide

• In Event: Gender & Human Rights

Brief Overview

I argue that the conditions making progressive policy reversal likely are the opposite of ones that foster their creation. The exclusion of women from the policy arena in Nicaragua made reversal more likely and foreshadowed democratic decay.

Author

• Shannon Drysdale Walsh, University of Minnesota-Duluth