Merike Blofield Bücher

The book explores the tension between women's rights and conservative organized religion in three recently democratized Catholic nations: Spain, Chile, and Argentina. It delves into the specific challenges and conflicts that emerge in these societies, highlighting the complex interplay of cultural, religious, and political factors that shape the discourse around gender equality and women's empowerment. Through this analysis, it sheds light on the broader implications for social justice and human rights in the context of religious conservatism.

This Element lists the factors that explain cross-national and cross-temporal differences in policy effort: policy legacies, unified/divided government, and fiscal space. In settings of crisis, the democratic politics of social policy expansion shift, with traditional factors like ideology and electoral competition playing a less central role.