Public Ideas and Public Policy: Abortion Politics in Four Democracies

Yishai, Yael

doi:10.2307/422352

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“…To understand better the different determinants of gender equality policies, Htun and Weldon's (2010) class/status distinction (which builds upon the work of an earlier generation of comparative feminist scholars like Norris, 1987;Yishai, 1993) can be combined with insights from the agendasetting literature (Baumgartner, Green-Pedersen, & Jones, 2006). Research has examined the problem of when national governments "pay serious attention" (Kindgon, 1995) to gender equality reforms in five European countries (Annesley et al, 2015).…”

Section: Acto Rs and In S Ti Tut Io Ns I N Gen Der Eq Ual It Y P Olmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, actors, and institutions at the local level: Explaining variation in policies to address violence against women and girls

Gains

Lowndes

2017

Governance

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Research on gender equality policy has generally focused on actors and institutions at the national and international levels. This article considers the role of local‐level actors and institutions in explaining different policy responses to violence against women and girls (VAWG). The literature on gender policy trajectories identifies the particular importance of executive actors in influencing “status policies” like VAWG. Quantitative data are analyzed to show how local Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales have responded to demands for policy action. The focus is on the interaction between the 41 elected commissioners and the new institutional arrangements for police governance introduced in 2012. The article shows that variation in policy outcomes is related (a) to the gender of executive actors and (b) to the way in which actors interpret elements of the institutional framework, regardless of their own gender.

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Section: Acto Rs and In S Ti Tut Io Ns I N Gen Der Eq Ual It Y P Olmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, actors, and institutions at the local level: Explaining variation in policies to address violence against women and girls

Gains

Lowndes

2017

Governance

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“…According to Yishai (1993), these changes in policy reflect two contradictory aspects of Israel's perceived population problem: on the one hand, the association between family size and social distress, and on the other, the different fertility rates of Jewish and non‐Jewish communities. Yishai maintains that the liberalisation of abortion was triggered by a growing awareness in the early 1970s of the fact that large families constituted a social risk group, as was evident in the socio‐economic clause.…”

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New reproductive technologies, genetic counselling and the standing of the fetus: views from Germany and Israel

Hashiloni‐Dolev

Weiner

2008

Sociology Health & Illness

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This paper reports findings from a comparative study of Israeli and German genetic counsellors' perceptions of the moral standing of the fetus. Data collected through in-depth interviews with counsellors in both countries (N=32) are presented, and their moral practices are analysed. The paper's findings suggest that while German counsellors perceive the fetus as an autonomous being and debate the particular biological stages through which this autonomy is acquired; Israeli counsellors do not consider the moral status of the fetus independently of its relations with its family hence, deploying a 'relational ethics'. It is suggested that these differences are influenced by historical, political, legal, and religious traditions in Germany and Israel regarding abortions and the fetus. It is concluded that the deployment of a 'biological ethics' by German counsellors reproduces the model of fetal developmental stages (in itself a construction), and hence goes hand in hand with perceptions of the fetus as a 'life', and thus as the bearer of autonomous rights which are understood to contradict those of its mother. On the other hand, the rejection of 'biological ethics' by Israeli counsellors enables a perception of fetuses that is first and foremost defined by their relationships with others.

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“…Policy reform can often seem an opaque process, especially in countries without mature democratic systems and when the subject matter is contentious, as is abortion (Yishai, 1993). Contextual conditions, agenda‐setting circumstances and policy characteristics influence the perceptions and concerns of policy elites and social actors, along with the nature and scope of conflict surrounding efforts to introduce policy change.…”

Section: The Course Of the Abortion Debatementioning

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The Abortion Debate in Mexico: Realities and Stalled Policy Reform

Kulczycki

2007

Bull Latin American Res

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Over 500,000 clandestine abortions occur annually in Mexico, many under unfavourable health conditions. An uneasy silence about this situation has long prevailed. Since the 1970s, abortion has appeared periodically in public discourse and on the decision‐making agenda, only for action to be repeatedly postponed. Mobilisation around the abortion issue grew slowly, but debate and controversy became nationwide as the country began to experience systemic change in 2000. Despite increasing political pluralism and growing awareness of the existing problems, for now in Mexico, as elsewhere in Latin America, the question of abortion is not judged sufficiently pressing to merit major policy change. However, improved contraceptive use and the institution of new technologies and post‐abortion care are helping to make abortions safer and rarer.

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Public Ideas and Public Policy: Abortion Politics in Four Democracies

Cited by 36 publications

References 22 publications

Gender, actors, and institutions at the local level: Explaining variation in policies to address violence against women and girls

Gender, actors, and institutions at the local level: Explaining variation in policies to address violence against women and girls

New reproductive technologies, genetic counselling and the standing of the fetus: views from Germany and Israel

The Abortion Debate in Mexico: Realities and Stalled Policy Reform

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