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The Politics of Disclosure: Three Papers on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence Claim-Making in India
The Politics of Disclosure: Three Papers on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence Claim-Making in India
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104841
- ISBN
- 9798297600164
- DDC
- 320
- 저자명
- Sheth, Surili.
- 서명/저자
- The Politics of Disclosure: Three Papers on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence Claim-Making in India
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 187 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Chhibber, Pradeep;Dunning, Thad.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Understanding and accurately measuring what women want is essential to the study of domestic violence. Women's decisions to disclose violence to different institutions and their preferences for outside intervention into their marital negotiations are central not only to research on domestic violence but also to broader questions of democratic engagement. Yet many empirical studies systematically overlook or misinterpret survivors' desires when it comes to reporting abuse. These measurement errors leave us with an incomplete picture of how women navigate state, civic, and customary institutions in response to violence-and what they truly seek from those institutions. Women's desires are often termed ``illicit" or ``off-label" if they do not involve the desire for punitive action against her husband, or if they approach non-state institutions for support. This project takes women's situated desires as a starting point from which to measure how and when they navigate different institutions.India is a context where domestic violence is high and stagnant, but claim-making rates to the police remain low and stagnant despite the proliferation of laws and institutions meant to address violence against women. I study how and when women expect help from different institutions in the face of violence and test whether institutions' orientations toward women's obligations in marriage make a difference in their expectations for support from those same institutions. Finally, I study how women's civic associations help women strategize about when and how to approach state and customary associations for support.In this dissertation, I present three papers that all deal with survivors' pathway in navigating institutions to get support for navigating domestic violence. Overall, I find that women's desires in renegotiating their marriages, or the terms of their marriages, are central to how they strategize about reporting domestic violence to different institutions. I also find that women's civic associations can play a key role in shaping the trajectory of different institutions that a survivor approaches, especially among a marignalized, rural population of women. Women's priors about orientations toward their marital obligations - namely, whether they would support separation in the face of violence - vary between institutions. And women's civic associations play an active role in helping women navigate other institutions - including the police and the courts - in ways that are strategically useful to their desires in negotiating the terms of their abusive marriages.In the first paper, I develop a framework for remedying measurement gaps in the study of domestic violence. I identify challenges in observing and measuring domestic violence in political science research, highlighting the consequences that these challenges have for analyses of political institutions and citizen behavior. I argue that a dominant focus on state institutions, and the effects of institutional and legislative reforms, often leads scholars to rely on official records that systematically miscode or miss record instances of violence. These omissions are not random: they reflect the state's own classificatory logic, which is followed in both administrative and self-reported survey data. The paper discusses how exclusively studying state institutions and reliance on impact evaluations can these compound problems of missing and misclassified data. In response to these challenges, I propose an alternative approach that centers survivors' desires and maps the institutional trajectories of cases. By designing research inquiry using the principle of testimonial competence, political scientists can broaden the scope of observable domestic violence cases that are studied. This opens up new avenues to more accurately diagnose barriers to both reporting and the successful redressal of claims made by survivors, and improves transparency about which cases are being captured at state institutions and which ones are not. The paper concludes by illustrating how to use this framework through its application to a mixed-methods study of domestic violence in rural India, combining experimental methods with a novel ``case anatomy" approach.In the second paper, I ask: do women expect that going to an institution for help will reduce domestic violence or do they believe it will cause backlash? If they believe it will reduce violence, which local institutions are the most likely to do so, and why? I develop a theory of strategic expectations, arguing that women's beliefs about different institutions' functions in regulating and upholding obligations in marriage shape their expectations about what will happen if they report violence to that institution. Drawing on an original survey experiment with 2,031 ever-married women between the ages of 18 and 50 in rural Gujarat, India, I find that women's organizations, rather than (women) police or customary organizations, are expected to both be more likely to reduce violence and to support separation from the abusive marriage. However, every institution is expected to support compromise and pressure on the husband and remedies within the institution of marriage. Overall, going to any institution is expected to mitigate violence. However, the differential expectations regarding support in getting out of their marital obligations may help explain diversified claim-making portfolios among survivors of domestic violence. The findings advance demand-side accounts of claim-making by situating survivors' reporting within the institution of marriage. They offer suggestive evidence that perceptions about local institutional functions in regulating marriage may be associated with whether and how women pursue redress for violence, shedding light on the conditions under which legal and institutional reforms fail to translate into increased engagement with state institutions. Women police are not expected to be the most supportive institution in helping women survivors separate from their marital families.In the third paper, I study the role of women's civic associations in survivors' negotiations. The comparative politics literature frames the role of civic associations in democracies primarily in terms of their horizontal linkages between members, which promotes social capital and citizen engagement in democratic processes. A separate literature focuses on the role of intermediaries and brokers in greasing the wheels of democratic engagement. This paper develops and uses the case of women citizens navigating domestic violence cases to bring these two bodies of scholarship together to theorize and test a third role of civic associations, particularly in how they aid in women's civic engagement. It argues that civic associations' vertical linkages with state and customary institutions, combined with their authority in the personal sphere, enables them to increase women survivors' claim-making success. It uses a novel archive of 148 domestic violence cases filed at a women's civic association in rural Gujarat to trace citizen's institutional trajectories across state, customary, and hybrid institutions, demonstrating the ways in which women's civic association plays this function to support survivors in achieving their desired outcomes.Together, these three papers show that survivors navigate violence strategically, even from positions of great disadvantage. They demonstrate that women's civic associations play a crucial role in legal pluralism and offer an explanation for why agentic survivors may not make claims on institutions that do not help them renegotiate their marital obligations in the ways that they desire.
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 일반주제명
- South Asian studies
- 일반주제명
- Law
- 일반주제명
- Criminology
- 키워드
- Gender
- 키워드
- Institutions
- 키워드
- South Asia
- 키워드
- Violence
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Political Science
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
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■520 ▼aUnderstanding and accurately measuring what women want is essential to the study of domestic violence. Women's decisions to disclose violence to different institutions and their preferences for outside intervention into their marital negotiations are central not only to research on domestic violence but also to broader questions of democratic engagement. Yet many empirical studies systematically overlook or misinterpret survivors' desires when it comes to reporting abuse. These measurement errors leave us with an incomplete picture of how women navigate state, civic, and customary institutions in response to violence-and what they truly seek from those institutions. Women's desires are often termed ``illicit" or ``off-label" if they do not involve the desire for punitive action against her husband, or if they approach non-state institutions for support. This project takes women's situated desires as a starting point from which to measure how and when they navigate different institutions.India is a context where domestic violence is high and stagnant, but claim-making rates to the police remain low and stagnant despite the proliferation of laws and institutions meant to address violence against women. I study how and when women expect help from different institutions in the face of violence and test whether institutions' orientations toward women's obligations in marriage make a difference in their expectations for support from those same institutions. Finally, I study how women's civic associations help women strategize about when and how to approach state and customary associations for support.In this dissertation, I present three papers that all deal with survivors' pathway in navigating institutions to get support for navigating domestic violence. Overall, I find that women's desires in renegotiating their marriages, or the terms of their marriages, are central to how they strategize about reporting domestic violence to different institutions. I also find that women's civic associations can play a key role in shaping the trajectory of different institutions that a survivor approaches, especially among a marignalized, rural population of women. Women's priors about orientations toward their marital obligations - namely, whether they would support separation in the face of violence - vary between institutions. And women's civic associations play an active role in helping women navigate other institutions - including the police and the courts - in ways that are strategically useful to their desires in negotiating the terms of their abusive marriages.In the first paper, I develop a framework for remedying measurement gaps in the study of domestic violence. I identify challenges in observing and measuring domestic violence in political science research, highlighting the consequences that these challenges have for analyses of political institutions and citizen behavior. I argue that a dominant focus on state institutions, and the effects of institutional and legislative reforms, often leads scholars to rely on official records that systematically miscode or miss record instances of violence. These omissions are not random: they reflect the state's own classificatory logic, which is followed in both administrative and self-reported survey data. The paper discusses how exclusively studying state institutions and reliance on impact evaluations can these compound problems of missing and misclassified data. In response to these challenges, I propose an alternative approach that centers survivors' desires and maps the institutional trajectories of cases. By designing research inquiry using the principle of testimonial competence, political scientists can broaden the scope of observable domestic violence cases that are studied. This opens up new avenues to more accurately diagnose barriers to both reporting and the successful redressal of claims made by survivors, and improves transparency about which cases are being captured at state institutions and which ones are not. The paper concludes by illustrating how to use this framework through its application to a mixed-methods study of domestic violence in rural India, combining experimental methods with a novel ``case anatomy" approach.In the second paper, I ask: do women expect that going to an institution for help will reduce domestic violence or do they believe it will cause backlash? If they believe it will reduce violence, which local institutions are the most likely to do so, and why? I develop a theory of strategic expectations, arguing that women's beliefs about different institutions' functions in regulating and upholding obligations in marriage shape their expectations about what will happen if they report violence to that institution. Drawing on an original survey experiment with 2,031 ever-married women between the ages of 18 and 50 in rural Gujarat, India, I find that women's organizations, rather than (women) police or customary organizations, are expected to both be more likely to reduce violence and to support separation from the abusive marriage. However, every institution is expected to support compromise and pressure on the husband and remedies within the institution of marriage. Overall, going to any institution is expected to mitigate violence. However, the differential expectations regarding support in getting out of their marital obligations may help explain diversified claim-making portfolios among survivors of domestic violence. The findings advance demand-side accounts of claim-making by situating survivors' reporting within the institution of marriage. They offer suggestive evidence that perceptions about local institutional functions in regulating marriage may be associated with whether and how women pursue redress for violence, shedding light on the conditions under which legal and institutional reforms fail to translate into increased engagement with state institutions. Women police are not expected to be the most supportive institution in helping women survivors separate from their marital families.In the third paper, I study the role of women's civic associations in survivors' negotiations. The comparative politics literature frames the role of civic associations in democracies primarily in terms of their horizontal linkages between members, which promotes social capital and citizen engagement in democratic processes. A separate literature focuses on the role of intermediaries and brokers in greasing the wheels of democratic engagement. This paper develops and uses the case of women citizens navigating domestic violence cases to bring these two bodies of scholarship together to theorize and test a third role of civic associations, particularly in how they aid in women's civic engagement. It argues that civic associations' vertical linkages with state and customary institutions, combined with their authority in the personal sphere, enables them to increase women survivors' claim-making success. It uses a novel archive of 148 domestic violence cases filed at a women's civic association in rural Gujarat to trace citizen's institutional trajectories across state, customary, and hybrid institutions, demonstrating the ways in which women's civic association plays this function to support survivors in achieving their desired outcomes.Together, these three papers show that survivors navigate violence strategically, even from positions of great disadvantage. They demonstrate that women's civic associations play a crucial role in legal pluralism and offer an explanation for why agentic survivors may not make claims on institutions that do not help them renegotiate their marital obligations in the ways that they desire.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0028.
■650 4▼aPolitical science
■650 4▼aSouth Asian studies
■650 4▼aLaw
■650 4▼aCriminology
■653 ▼aGender
■653 ▼aInstitutions
■653 ▼aPolitical behavior
■653 ▼aSouth Asia
■653 ▼aViolence
■690 ▼a0615
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■71020▼aUniversity of California, Berkeley▼bPolitical Science.
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■790 ▼a0028
■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
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