Women's Citizenship in Peru: The Paradoxes of Neopopulism in by S. Rousseau

By S. Rousseau

Neopopulism is a relevant factor to appreciate women’s citizenship building in lots of nations of up to date Latin the United States. As a selected form of political rule in keeping with an unmediated attraction by means of a robust nation chief to the hundreds, neopopulism offers either constraints and possibilities for women’s organisations to increase their claims. In Peru, President Alberto Fujimori’s neopopulist politics (1990-2000) trusted a gendered set of recommendations and guidelines which are analyzed relating to 3 varied sectors of the women’s flow. The findings illustrate that a number of the prepared girls that have been such a lot at once mobilized via Fujimori (the poorest) have been additionally those that misplaced the main in the course of his decade-long rule, whereas different ladies in NGOs and events made extra monstrous profits. this is often the 1st book-length case examine of the gender dimensions of populism that explains the paradoxes entailed for women’s participation and citizenship rights in Latin America. 

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The need to compensate for years of delay in industrializing Peru, in comparison with its neighbors, also formed part of the consensus reached by the high ranks of the military, as well as most of the intellectual elites of the country. As a result, there was little opposition to the military taking power in 1968 (Stepan 1978; Contreras and Cueto 1999). In terms of the gains made in citizenship rights, as noted in the introduction, the Velasco regime represented the most fruitful period for the extension of social rights.

Whether or not a crisis of democratic institutions is necessary for neopopulist leadership patterns to emerge is therefore a question of context and interpretation. This said, neopopulist rule has sometimes proven to be detrimental to the consolidation of democracy in Latin America. The reason is clear: while neopopulist parties have claimed to be responding to a lack of representation for popular interests, they have followed a centralizing trend of political deinstitutionalization that has weakened and severed democratic accountability.

Mauceri interprets this move as caused by the fact that “for Peru’s left, civilian rule was identified with the conservative governments of the 1940s and 1960s” (Mauceri 1997, 25). Th e Cr isis Buildi ng U p to the 1 990 E lec ti ons It may not be an exaggeration to say that the profound crisis that built up during the 1980s was primarily due to a crisis of the political system, if we define the latter to include not only state institutions but key political actors such as parties. The transition to democracy did not provide the foundations for a renovated political order that could carry within the sphere of political institutions the vast expectations that social reforms and mobilization in civil society contained.

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