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The Politics of Disclosure: Three Papers on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence Claim-Making in India
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The Politics of Disclosure: Three Papers on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence Claim-Making in India

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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  
Political behavior
키워드  
South Asia
키워드  
Violence
기타저자  
University of California, Berkeley Political Science
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-04A.
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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.
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