Abortion Law and Political Institutions Explaining Policy Resistance /

• Main Author: Thomson, Jennifer (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Gender and Politics,
• Subjects: Identity politics.; Europe-Politics and government.; Public policy.; Cultural policy.; Politics and Gender.; European Politics.; Public Policy.; Cultural Policy and Politics.

This book provides a comprehensive study of abortion politics and policy in Northern Ireland. Whilst there is a substantial amount of literature on abortion in Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, there has been scant academic attention paid to the situation in Northern Ireland. Adopting a fe...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Gendering Institutions and Devolution
• 3. Northern Irish Politics and abortion
• 4. The National Institution: Westminster
• 5. Creating the Devolved Institution: the peace process
• 6. The Devolved Institution: power-sharing
• 7. The Devolved Institution: Stormont
• 8. Conclusions.