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Abstract

Same-sex marriage is now legal in over 20 countries and under debate in several more. All of the countries where legalization has occurred are liberal capitalist democracies, but they present considerable diversity in their history, political cultures, political and legal systems, and in the interactions of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer/questioning (LGBTIQ) movement and the state. Those countries where same-sex marriage has been explicitly blocked through laws, referendums, or court decisions present a comparable diversity. This book discusses that variety across the world’s five continents. Using a neo-institutionalist analytical framework (historical, sociological, and discursive), the book examines the tensions between globalization, supra-nationalization (in the case of the European Union) and national institutional, political, and social path dependencies. Each chapter compares two to four countries in the same region and/or having historical links and institutional similarities.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. European Studies, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Bronwyn Winter

  2. Effective Gender Equality in Research and the Academia, Framework Project 7, OFCE-Sciences Po, Paris, France

    Maxime Forest

  3. Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po, CNRS - Sciences Po, PRESAGE, Paris, France

    Réjane Sénac

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  1. European Studies, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Bronwyn Winter

  2. Sciences Po - OFCE, Center for Political Research CEVIPOF, Paris, France

    Maxime Forest

  3. Sciences Po - CNRS, Center for Political Research CEVIPOF, Paris, France

    Réjane Sénac

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The editors thank a number of this book’s authors for their significant contributions to our discussion of neo-institutionalism and notably discursive institutionalism in this Introduction.

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Winter, B., Forest, M., Sénac, R. (2018). Introduction. In: Winter, B., Forest, M., Sénac, R. (eds) Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage. Global Queer Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62764-9_1

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