Gay Marriage in UK Law
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From gay liberation to marriage equality: A political lesson to be learnt
This article deals with the issue of resignification to advance a hypothesis on the way in which social practices are transformed with recourse to the language of institutions. It first discusses t...
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The hidden cost of direct democracy: How ballot initiatives affect politicians’ selection and incentives
Citizen initiatives and referendums play an important role in modern democracies, from treaty ratifications in the European Union to gay marriage in California, to the control of foreign workers in...... ... Citizen initiatives and referendums play an important role in modern democracies, from treaty ratifications in the European Union to gay marriage in California, to the control of foreign workers in Switzerland. Departing from the classic opposition between direct and representative democ- racy, ... ...
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Discrimination based on political beliefs: A field experiment on the freedom of assembly
Public officials have been shown to discriminate against citizens based on race and gender. We suggest that bureaucrats also discriminate based on political beliefs that citizens reveal to them. We...... ... We support this argument with evidence from the applicationof freedom of assembly rights in the context of gay marriage. We confront German cityadministrations with requests about the organization of a political rally and randomizethe underlying political belief and ... ...
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Habermas on rationality: Means, ends and communication
This is a constructive critique of Habermas’s account of rationality, which is central to his political theory and has sparked theoretical and empirical research across academia. Habermas and many ...... ... Moreover , means-ends rationality will be present in discourse ethics, as I show with the example of moral discourse about gay marriage. My article thus challenges decades of what Habermas and critical theorists have written on means-ends and communicative rationality, but I stay ... ...
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Framing Same-sex Marriage in Canada and the United States: Goodridge, Halpern
and The National Boundaries of Political Discourse
The article draws on post-positivist policy analysis and social movement theory to explore the impact of law in shaping the politics of social movement claims and di...
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Sexual deviance in prison: Queering identity and intimacy in prison research
Recent years have seen increased attention in both research and policy towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners as a group with distinct needs. This has been driven by wider politic...... ... Just as contemporary campaigns around marriage rights see lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities and individuals as fundamentally the same as the majority, rather than posing a ... ...
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The march toward marriage equality: Reexamining the diffusion of same-sex marriage among states
The issue of same-sex marriage and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality has received considerable attention from policy scholars. This is unsurprising given the issue is one of the defi...
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Forced Marriage as a Harm in Domestic and International Law
This article reports on our analysis of 120 refugee cases from Australia, Canada, and Britain where an actual or threatened forced marriage was part of the claim for protection. We found that force...
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Reviews
Books reviewed: Petersen (ed), Love and Law in Europe Bamforth, Sexuality, Morals and Justice: A Theory of Lesbian and Gay Rights Law Griffiths, In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an ...... ... January 2000] Reviews ß The Modern Law Review Limited 2000 139 ... Anne M.O. Griffiths , In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997, ix + 310 pp, hb 39.95; pb 15.25. This is a study ... ...
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'Entitled To Be Hostile': Narrating the Political Economy of Civil Rights
This article argues that civil rights generally and gay rights in particular have increas ingly become the locus for a politics of changing state sovereignty in the USA, one which calls upon the st...... ... case studies illuminate these claims: Colorado’s anti-gay Amendment 2, and Hawai’i’s impending legalization of same-sex marriage. This Court has no business imposing upon all Americans the resolution favored by the elite class from which the Members of this ... ...
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