Constituencies inside parties: the decriminalization of abortion in Bolivia and transgender rights law in Uruguay

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dc.creatorMarzoa, Soledad
dc.creatorPérez-Bentancur, Verónica
dc.creatorPiñeiro, Rafael
dc.creatorRocha-Carpiuc, Cecilia
dc.creatorRosenblatt, Fernando
dc.date2025-10-31T15:25:18Z
dc.date2025-10-31T15:25:18Z
dc.date2025
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-11T17:12:24Z
dc.date.available2026-02-11T17:12:24Z
dc.descriptionCurrent theories employ a transactional approach to explain how a given constituency successfully advances its policy agenda. These theories focus on groups’ capacities to marshal material, mobilizational, or disruptive resources to exert influence on politicians. However, these theories cannot account for how constituencies lacking such resources nonetheless succeed at promoting their demands. We analyze two cases that involved the promotion of divisive issues—the decriminalization of abortion in Bolivia and the passage of a law recognizing transgender rights in Uruguay—to explain how social groups can advance their agendas. We show how these groups can engage in constitutive relations with parties, i.e., they influence party decision-making processes by acting as constituencies inside parties. In parties with formal and/or informal structures that allow their members to exercise voice, constituencies can exert agency and transform a party’s policy agenda without engaging in resource transaction. We outline this theory through two in-depth case studies using a systematic process-tracing analysis.
dc.descriptionAgencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación
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dc.format46 p.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10895/4845
dc.identifierFCE_1_2021_1_166798
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.bibliolatino.com/handle/123456789/2636
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherUniversidad Católica del Uruguay
dc.publisherUY
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsLicencia Creative Commons Atribución – No Comercial – Sin Derivadas (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectPartidos políticos
dc.subjectGrupos sociales
dc.subjectAborto
dc.subjectPersonas transgénero
dc.subjectBolivia
dc.subjectUruguay
dc.subjectDerechos humanos
dc.titleConstituencies inside parties: the decriminalization of abortion in Bolivia and transgender rights law in Uruguay
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/preprint
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