Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage A Neo-Institutional Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Winter, Bronwyn (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Forest, Maxime (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sénac, Réjane (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Global Queer Politics,
• Subjects: Identity politics.; Comparative politics.; Globalization.; Women in development.; Gender identity.; Sex and law.; Politics and Gender.; Comparative Politics.; Development and Gender.; Gender and Sexuality.; Gender, Sexuality and Law.

This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to adopt-same-sex marriage laws. The now twenty-one countries where lesbians and gay men can legally marry include recent or longstanding democracies, republics and parliam...

Table of Contents:

• 1.  Institutionalizing Same-Sex Marriage in Argentina and Mexico: The Role of Federalism
• 2. A Tale of Two Congresses: Sex, Institutions and Evangelicals in Brazil and Chile
• 3. Historical Institutionalism and Same-Sex Marriage: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. And Canada
• 4. Understanding Same-Sex Marriage Debates in Malawi and South Africa
• 5. Same-Sex Marriage in France and Spain: Comparing Resistance in a Centralized Secular Republic and the Dynamics of Change in A "Quasi-Federal" Constitutional Monarchy
• 6. Europeanizing vs. Nationalizing the Issue of Same-Sex Marriage in Central Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Framing Processes in Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia
• 7. Preserving the Social Fabric: Debating Family, Equality, and Polity in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Australia
• 8. The Globalization of LGBT Identity and Same-Sex Marriage as a Catalyst of Neo-Institutional Values: Singapore and Indonesia in Focus
• 9. Pathways to Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage in China and Taiwan: Globalization And "Chinese Values".