In this thorough, yet accessible, book, Robert Garner explores the character of animal protection policy making in Britain and the United States and the opportunities open to animal protection movements. In showing how the political system in both countries has been responsive to the growing demands for reforms in the way animals are treated, he argues that there is a viable reformist strategy for the animal protection movement short of the adoption of animal rights objectives. Much less protection is afforded to animals in the United States, however, largely as a consequence of the particular policy networks within which animal welfare decisions are made.

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Institution
networks
parliament
Policy
politics
reforms

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University of Leicester, UK

Robert Garner

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Robert Garner is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leicester.

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Book Title: Political Animals
Book Subtitle: Animal Protection Politics in Britain and the United States
Authors: Robert Garner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26438-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-73000-3Published: 05 May 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-26438-4Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 286
Topics: Political Science, Political Communication, Sociology, general

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