Marrying European and Domestic Politics? The Marriage Referendum in Croatia and Value-Based Euroscepticism

Slootmaeckers, Koen; Sircar, Indraneel

doi:10.1080/09668136.2018.1457136

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“…In Romania and Slovakia, anticipating that it would be impossible to obtain a majority of votes favouring SSM and recognising the legal provision that establishes a validation quorum of 30 per cent in Romania and 50 per cent in Slovakia, these same groups and their political allies opted for the strategy of boycotting the referendum (so that the quorum threshold would not be reached) -which proved successful. Such a strategy was excluded in Croatia, where there is no validation quorum, and in Slovenia, where a referendum result is validated if the majority of ballots cast for either YES or NO represents 20 per cent of registered voters (Forest, 2018;Krasovec, 2015;Kroslak, 2015;Rybar and Šovčíková, 2016;Slootmaeckers and Sircar, 2018).…”

Section: The Regional Specificity Of East Central European Referendumsmentioning

confidence: 99%

When cultural strength means political weakness: Romania’s marriage referendum and the paradox of conservative mobilisation

Racu¹,

Giugăl

Johnston

et al. 2020

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Held on 6–7 October 2018, the Romanian referendum on the topic of gay marriage was the fourth referendum of this kind organised in East Central Europe over a five-year period. Because turnout was low in all of them and demands explanation, this paper: i) discusses the common characteristics of these Eastern European marriage referendums, contextualising the Romanian referendum; ii) overviews the history of the Romanian referendum, emphasising the legal, political, ideological and societal aspects; iii) quantitatively examines the electoral geography of the voting patterns; and iv) interprets qualitative data seeking to understand the voters’ choices and why conservative mobilisation was so weak.

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Section: The Regional Specificity Of East Central European Referendumsmentioning

confidence: 99%

When cultural strength means political weakness: Romania’s marriage referendum and the paradox of conservative mobilisation

Racu¹,

Giugăl

Johnston

et al. 2020

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…It built heavily on the legacy of the 2013 same-sex marriage referendum, which is illustrative of post-accession changes in Croatian memory politics. In 2013, anti-gender NGOs gained support from thenoppositional HDZ and the Church (Slootmaeckers and Sircar 2018) to constitutionally define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The main agents of the anti-Istanbul Convention movement first entered the political arena during this time.…”

Section: Ioi's Collective Action Framesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narratives of Gender, War Memory, and EU-Scepticism in the Movement Against the Ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Croatia

Obajdin¹,

Golušin²

2020

Europeanisation and Memory Politics in the Western Balkans

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The chapter analyses how the movement against the Istanbul Convention in Croatia used historical memory to frame the Convention and argue against gender and sex-based equality. It begins with the assumption of a mutually shaping relationship between memory agents and memory regimes to explore how the movement's discourses emerged from post-accession shifts in Croatia's discursive opportunity structures. To map the ties between the movement's discourses and pre-existing nationalist discourses, we use Van Leeuwen's theory of recontextualisation. We argue that post-accession, EU membership could no D. Obajdin (B)

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“…Many studies have outlined factors that are critical for creating an environment and culture in which same-sex marriage policy diffusion can take place such as public and political ideology, influence of LGBTQ groups, acceptance of homosexuality, religiosity, and international pressure, specifically from the European Union or the European Court on Human Rights (Kollman, 2007(Kollman, , 2017Cooper, 2012;Fernández and Lutter, 2013;Kreitzer, Hamilton and Tolbert, 2014;Ayoub, 2015;Mitchell and Petray, 2016;Hildebrandt, Trüdinger and Jäckle, 2017;Slootmaeckers and Sircar, 2018).…”

Section: Empirical Application: the Diffusion Of Same-sex Marriagementioning

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Modelling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study

Elkink¹,

Grund²

2019

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The study of international relations by definition deals with interdependencies among countries. One form of interdependence between countries is the diffusion of countrylevel features, such as policies, political regimes, or conflict. In these studies, the outcome variable tends to be categorical, and the primary concern is the clustering of the outcome variable among connected countries. Statistically, such clustering is studied with spatial econometric models. This paper instead proposes the use of a statistical network approach to model diffusion with a binary outcome variable. Using statistical network instead of spatial econometric models allows for a more natural specification of the diffusion process, assuming autocorrelation in the outcomes rather than the corresponding latent variable, and it simplifies the inclusion of temporal dynamics, higher level interdependencies and interactions between network ties and country-level features. In our simulations, the performance of the Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model (SAOM) estimator is evaluated. Our simulation results show that spatial parameters and coefficients on additional covariates in a static binary spatial autoregressive model are accurately recovered when using SAOM, albeit on a different scale. To demonstrate the use of this model, the paper applies the model to the international diffusion of same-sex marriage.

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Marrying European and Domestic Politics? The Marriage Referendum in Croatia and Value-Based Euroscepticism

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

When cultural strength means political weakness: Romania’s marriage referendum and the paradox of conservative mobilisation

When cultural strength means political weakness: Romania’s marriage referendum and the paradox of conservative mobilisation

Narratives of Gender, War Memory, and EU-Scepticism in the Movement Against the Ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Croatia

Modelling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study

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