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The Strategic Use of Gender and Race in Peru's 2011 Presidential Campaign

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2012

Christina Ewig
Christina Ewig
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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The final round of Peru's 2011 presidential campaign featured two dramatically different candidates. Ollanta Humala was a leftist nationalist who sought to increase redistribution to the poorest and most marginalized. Keiko Fujmori was a right-wing proponent of the free market and the torchbearer of her father's presidential legacy of overcoming economic crisis and terrorism in the 1990s. According to the extant scholarship on the relationship between left parties and gender equality, we should have expected the leftist candidate to support gender equality policies more strongly.

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 267 - 274
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2012

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