This article provides an analytical framework for understanding why and how many authoritarian regimes have recently adopted reforms that address gender equality. I illustrate and hone the framework by tracing three policy-making processes on domestic violence in Russia, an important and least-likely case for such reforms. While recent scholarship finds the importance of international leverage, strategic actions by women’s groups, and regime interest in sidelining religious extremists, this study highlights other opportunities and agents and specifies authoritarian mechanisms such as intra-elite conflict, signaling between the autocrat and elites, and selective responsiveness. Drawing on the scholarship on authoritarian regime dynamics, policy making in Russia, and gender policy making, this study contributes to the literature on the relationship between gender and regime type by focusing on the micrologics of authoritarian policy making.

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独裁的性别平等政策制定：俄罗斯的家庭暴力政治

本文提供了一个分析框架，用于理解为什么以及有多少独裁政权最近采取了解决性别平等问题的改革。我通过追踪俄罗斯家庭暴力的三个政策制定过程来说明和完善该框架，这是此类改革的一个重要且最不可能的案例。虽然最近的学术研究发现了国际影响力的重要性、妇女团体的战略行动以及政权对排挤宗教极端分子的兴趣，但这项研究强调了其他机会和代理人，并具体说明了威权机制，例如精英内部冲突、独裁者与精英之间的信号，以及选择性反应。借鉴关于独裁政权动态、俄罗斯政策制定和性别政策制定的奖学金，