In Europe’s Closet: the rights of sexual minorities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Guasti, Petra; Buštíková, Lenka

doi:10.1080/21599165.2019.1705282

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“…Individuals and groups do not blame themselves for not having what they want and feel entitled to (Crosby, 1976: 90). Instead, they isolate “a particular villain … to whom blame for the in-group’s disadvantaged position can be attributed” (Guasti and Bustikova, 2019; Rauschenbach et al, 2015). Feeling relatively deprived can foster strong feelings of frustration, resentment, and grievance (Pettigrew, 2002: 361; Smith et al, 2012: 204).…”

Section: Grievances As Horizontal Inequality and Relative Deprivationmentioning

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Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality

Siroky

Warner

Filip-Crawford

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Conflict Management and Peace Science

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Social science answers to the essential question of group conflict have focused on two main explanations—their motivating “grievances” and their mobilization “capacity” for collective action. Recent years have seen a renewed focus on grievances in the form of horizontal inequalities (between-group inequality), but the important conceptual and potential empirical differences between horizontal inequality and relative deprivation have not yet been incorporated into this discussion fully. This article first discusses these distinctions, and then assesses how they influence collective violence using new global evidence. Consistent with the theoretical discussion, the empirical results indicate that these concepts are not substitutes, and indeed are only weakly correlated, but rather tap into distinct aspects of grievance. The paper discusses the implications of these results, validates them in a series of robustness checks, and concludes with possible extensions along with future directions.

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Section: Grievances As Horizontal Inequality and Relative Deprivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality

Siroky

Warner

Filip-Crawford

et al. 2020

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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“…From this perspective of movement-countermovement dynamics, liberalisation created a demand for conservative counteractions (Meyer and Staggenborg 1996;Stone 2016). Guasti and Bustikova (2019), in a recent study, demonstrated this 'reactive logic of backlash against accommodation' in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.…”

Section: Explaining Resistance To Lgbti Rights: Domestic Demands and mentioning

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The anticipatory politics of homophobia: explaining constitutional bans on same-sex marriage in post-communist Europe

Mos

2020

East European Politics

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As the number of European countries that recognise same-sex unions increases, so does the number of countries that resists this institution. This trend runs counter to the conventional wisdom, which links anti-LGBTI policies to domestic demands and developments. Instead, this paper argues that political homophobia needs to be situated within an international context. Using the Slovak case as a plausibility probe, the article shows that the bans on same-sex marriage were adopted as a precautionary measure: worried by the growing support for LGBTI rights elsewhere in Europe, conservative lawmakers feared that their traditional family values would come under threat.

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“…lack of change) persists (cf. Guasti and Buštíková 2019). The key factor in change is the cost of changing the status quo, which determines the willingness of domestic actors.…”

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“…The EU sanctions include anti-discrimination rulings by domestic Constitutional Courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), whereas the Council of Europe sanctions include rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Both types of ruling are against states (Guasti 2017;Guasti et al 2017;Guasti and Buštíková 2019). Sanctions by the EU and the CoE can help us to understand the behaviour of states, but they will not be as helpful in explaining the variation in behaviour of domestic actors.…”

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Same Same, but Different: Domestic Conditions of Illiberal Backlash Against Universal Rights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Guasti

2020

Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics

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In recent years, mobilisation along the cultural dimension intensified in East-Central Europe. Conservative groups, the Catholic Church and the radical right, as well as radicalised mainstream politicians, are increasingly adopting the populist socially conservative rhetoric, blocking pro-universal rights legislation and running electoral campaigns on the rollback of universal rights. These dynamics are an integral part of the illiberal backlash which centres around the notion of sovereignty. It rejects demands for universal rights as foreign-forced on the country by the EU or CoE. Using historical institutionalism to compare domestic processes around minority rights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, this chapter shows that the mechanics of the EU member states’ backlash against minority accommodation can be mainly attributed to the domestic actors. As a result of different domestic configurations, some European norms take root, while in other cases, domestic actors seek to prevent accommodation and rollback rights.

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In Europe’s Closet: the rights of sexual minorities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Cited by 31 publications

References 50 publications

Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality

Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality

The anticipatory politics of homophobia: explaining constitutional bans on same-sex marriage in post-communist Europe

Same Same, but Different: Domestic Conditions of Illiberal Backlash Against Universal Rights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

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