The EU Enlargement and Gay Politics: The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on Rights, Activism and PrejudiceKoen Slootmaeckers, Heleen Touquet, Peter Vermeersch Springer, 2016 M06 23 - 238 pages This book offers a well-investigated and accessible picture of the current situation around the politics of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights and activism in Central Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of the enlargement of the European Union (EU). It provides not only thoughtful reflections on the topic but also a wealth of new empirical findings — arising from legal and policy analysis, large-scale sociological investigations and country case studies. Theoretical concepts come from institutional analysis, the study of social movements, law, and Europeanization literature. The authors discuss emerging Europe-wide activism for LGBT rights and analyze issues such as the tendency of nationalist movements to turn ‘sexual others’ into ‘national others,’ the actions and rhetoric of church actors as powerful counter-mobilizers against LGBT rights, and the role of the domestic state on the receiving end of EU pressure in the field of fundamental rights.
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... diffusion in which the EU is the initiator and third states the recipients of the EU's norms and rules ... norm diffusion and transnational networks (for an analysis of same-sex union policies in two Central European countries, see the ...
... norm diffusion theory, she finds that the existing, albeit limited, EU conditionality policy has contributed to a shift in Bosnian LGBT politics. She also highlights, however, the backlash that has come with the increased visibility of ...
... norm diffusion theory. However, Europeanization via enlargement is a closely linked process which can be seen as a specific case of the norm diffusion theory. For more on norm diffusion, see Swimelar's chapter. 5. The chapter by Kuhar ...
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