Women's Choices in Comparative Perspective: Abortion Policies in Late-Developing Catholic Countries

Blofield, Merike

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“…If not explicitly formulated, the latter is part of the left parties' intention to achieve inclusion of and equality among all individuals, the enhancement of participation opportunities and especially gender equality, which is closely affiliated to some morality issues. For example, leftist parties tend to favour extended rights for homosexual couples (Fernández & Lutter 2013;Hildebrandt 2016) and, regarding abortion policy, they typically support the pro-choice side of the debate (Blofield 2008). In a similar vein, this holds true for prostitution, where, for example, German leftist parties pushed for more permissive regulations during the Weimar Republic (Roos 2010).…”

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“…For example, leftist parties tend to favour extended rights for homosexual couples (Fernández & Lutter 2013;Hildebrandt 2016) and, regarding abortion policy, they typically support the pro-choice side of the debate (Blofield 2008). Leftist parties have traditionally pursued not just securing the individual from economic insecurity and hardship, but also freeing it from socially erected boundaries hindering self-fulfillment and achievements.…”

Section: Theoretical Expectations For Individual Party Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Much of this inconclusiveness has its roots in the disagreement over which cleavage should actually be considered from a theoretical perspective in order to account for the role of parties in general. While some scholars emphasise the 'classical' partisan politics arguments by stressing the left-right cleavage (Blofield 2008;Fink 2008;Fernández & Lutter 2013), others argue that conflict between religious and secular parties is much more important in accounting for morality policy change (Smith & Tatalovich 2003;Engeli et al 2012;Studlar & Burns 2015).…”

Section: Party Cleavages and Morality Policymentioning

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Partisan effects in morality policy making

Budde¹,

Heichel²,

Hurka³

et al. 2017

European J Political Res

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Current comparative policy research gives no clear answer to the question of whether partisan politics in general or the partisan composition of governments in particular matter for different morality policy outputs across countries and over time. This article addresses this desideratum by employing a new encompassing dataset that captures the regulatory permissiveness in six morality policies that are homosexuality, same‐sex partnership, prostitution, pornography, abortion and euthanasia in 16 European countries over five decades from 1960 to 2010. Given the prevalent scepticism about a role for political parties for morality policies in existing research, this is a ‘hard’ test case for the ‘parties do matter’ argument. Starting from the basic theoretical assumption that different party families, if represented in national governments to varying degrees, ought to leave differing imprints on morality policy making, this research demonstrates that parties matter when accounting for the variation in morality policy outputs. This general statement needs to be qualified in three important ways. First, the nature of morality policy implies that party positions or preferences cannot be fully understood by merely focusing on one single cleavage alone. Instead, morality policy is located at the interface of different cleavages, including not only left‐right and secular‐religious dimensions, but also the conflicts between materialism and postmaterialism, green‐alternative‐libertarian and traditional‐authoritarian‐nationalist (GAL‐TAN) parties, and integration and demarcation. Second, it is argued in this article that the relevance of different cleavages for morality issues varies over time. Third, partisan effects can be found only if individual cabinets, rather than country‐years, are used as the unit of analysis in the research design. In particular, party families that tend to prioritise individual freedom over collective interests (i.e., left and liberal parties) are associated with significantly more liberal morality policies than party families that stress societal values and order (i.e., conservative/right and religious parties). While the latter are unlikely to overturn previous moves towards permissiveness, these results suggest that they might preserve the status quo at least. Curiously, no systematic effects of green parties are found, which may be because they have been represented in European governments at later periods when morality policy outputs were already quite permissive.

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Section: Theoretical Expectations For Individual Party Familiesmentioning

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Partisan effects in morality policy making

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Hurka³

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European J Political Res

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“…Sin perjuicio de estas variaciones, la creación en los países de women's policy agencies ha contribuido tanto al avance en la formulación de políticas que contribuyen a la igualdad de géneros, a dar una señal sobre la importancia de que las mujeres alcancen dicha igualdad, así como a dar un espacio a los movimientos de mujeres en la formulación de políticas públi-cas (30,33).…”

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Participación política de las mujeres: Aspectos de confluencia entre la ética y los derechos humanos

Venegas

2013

Acta bioeth.

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Resumen: Este artículo explora los vínculos entre ética global y derechos humanos, con un foco particular en la participación política de las mujeres, como una forma de indagar en las posibles ampliaciones al campo de la ética global. Para ello, se determinan los alcances de los conceptos de ética y de ética global, así como de derechos humanos, y se examinan los vínculos entre ellos, particularmente la incorporación de consideraciones éticas por los derechos humanos y la fuerza que éstos les otorgan. Finalmente, el artículo se centra en los derechos de las mujeres y, específicamente, en la participación política; se analizan diversas alternativas, que van de las tradicionales de participación parlamentaria a formas como el establecimiento de agencias gubernamentales para mejorar la condición de las mujeres, y a formas de intervención a través de movimientos de mujeres. Se concluye apelando a la necesidad de que, tanto desde la ética como de los derechos humanos, se evalúen fórmulas para lograr la implementación de estos derechos que, en parte, pueden derivar de la incorporación más permanente de los movimientos de mujeres en la toma de decisión de políticas públicas.Palabras clave: participación política de las mujeres, derechos humanos, ética global, movimientos de mujeres Political participation of women. Some confluences between ethics and human rightsAbstract: This article explores the links between global ethics and human rights, with a particular focus on women's political participation, as a way of inquiring into possible ramifications within the field of global ethics. To this end, it determines the scope of the concepts of ethics and global ethics as well as that of human rights. It analyses the links between them, particularly the incorporation of ethical considerations on the part of human rights and the validity that the latter assign to them. Finally, the article concentrates onto women's rights and more specifically on their political participation. It analyses the diverse alternatives of participation, which cover a range that spans from the traditional parliamentary participation up to forms like the establishment of governmental agendas aimed at improving the condition of women and the participation through women's movements. It is concluded that, both from an ethics as well as human-rights point of view, it is necessary an evaluation of ways for achieving the implementation of these rights. These can derive from a more permanent incorporation of women's movements in the decision making process of public policies.Key words: women's political participation, human rights, global ethics, women's movements Participação política das mulheres. Aspectos de confluência entre a ética e os direitos humanos Resumo: Este artigo explora os vínculos entre ética global e direitos humanos, com um foco particular na participação política das mulheres, como uma forma de indagar as possíveis ampliações ao campo da ética global. Para isso, são determinados os alcances dos conceitos de ética e de ética global, assi...

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“…However, such differences are expected to result from factors other than religion, such as socio-economic conditions or party politics. Comparative studies reveal remarkable variation in the permissiveness of moral regulation, which is not systematically associated with religious factors, such as religiosity levels or the dominance of certain religious denominations (Knill et al 2015;Studlar & Burns 2015;Hurka et al 2017; see also Brooks 1992;Gindulis 2002;Blofield 2008;Asal et al 2013). Striking intra-country variation in the regulation of different morality policies reinforces this argument.…”

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Religious tides: The time‐variant effect of religion on morality policies

Knill

Fernández‐i‐Marín

Budde

et al. 2018

Regulation & Governance

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Morality policies evince a much closer relationship to religious doctrines than is the case in other policy areas and hence constitute a most likely case for the observation of religious effects on policymaking and regulatory change. Yet we still lack generally accepted answers to the questions of whether and how religion matters to morality policy. In this paper, we present a theoretical argument that helps to overcome the seemingly contradictory expectations derived from the secularization and religion matters hypotheses. We postulate a bottleneck effect of religious opposition: while religious influence matters most during early stages of the policy process when the problem definition of a moral issue is still in flux, it diminishes during later stages when the issue has made it onto the political agenda. We find evidence of the bottleneck effect in a dataset of policy permissiveness covering 26 countries and spanning 50 years for five morality policies (abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, pornography, and same‐sex marriage). The data is analyzed via a multilevel model and using Bayesian inference.

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Women's Choices in Comparative Perspective: Abortion Policies in Late-Developing Catholic Countries

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Partisan effects in morality policy making

Partisan effects in morality policy making

Participación política de las mujeres: Aspectos de confluencia entre la ética y los derechos humanos

Religious tides: The time‐variant effect of religion on morality policies

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