Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

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

2012; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1743923x1200027x

1743-9248

Christina Ewig,

Social Policy and Reform Studies

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.