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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... transnational (activist) cooperation and policy transfer (or cross-loading) via state-to-state learning and informal policy networks (Börzel and Risse 2007; Kollman 2009). This horizontal diffusion is particularly important when there ...
... transnational network of LGBT activists (see e.g. the chapter by Kristofferson, Roozendaal and Poghosyan 2016) and the role of changes in domestic political configurations (see, e.g., the chapters by Kuhar and Mencin Čeplak 2016; and O ...
... transnational LGBT litigation and, on the other hand, have steadily Europeanized the discourse on LGBT rights. Citizenship, anti-discrimination, and fundamental rights developments have all contributed to the minimum 'European ...
... transnational LGBTQ politics in Poland. European Journal of Women's Studies, 19(4), 444–459. Birnbaum, M. (2015). Gay rights in Eastern Europe: A new battleground for Russia and the West. The Washington Post [Online], 25 July. Retrieved ...
... transnational networks and national same-sex unions policy: When soft law hits harder. Contemporary Politics, 15(1), 37–53. Kristoffersson, M., van Roozendaal, B., & Poghosyan, L. (2016). European integration and LGBTI activism—partners ...