Institutionalizing same-sex marriage in Argentina and Mexico: the role of federalism / Jordi Diez -- A tale of two congresses: sex, institutions, and evangelicals in Brazil and Chile / Tyler Valinquette and Daniel Waring -- Historical institutionalism and same-sex marriage: a comparative analysis of the USA and Canada / Miriam Smith -- Understanding same-sex marriage debates in Malawi and South Africa / Ashley Currier and Julie Moreau -- 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 / Rejane Senac -- Europeanizing vs. nationalizing the issue of same-sex marriage in central Europe: a comparative analysis of framing processes in Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia / Maxime Forest -- Preserving the social fabric: debating family, equality and polity in the UK, the Republic of Ireland and Australia / Bronwyn Winter -- The globalization of LGBT identity and same-sex marriage as a catalyst of neo-institutional values: Singapore and Indonesia in focus / Hendri Yulius, Shawna Tang, and Baden Offord -- Pathways to legalizing same-sex marriage in China and Taiwan: globalization and "Chinese values" / Elaine Jeffreys and Pan Wang.
Summary:
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 parliamentary monarchies, and unitary and federal states. They all reflect different positions with respect to religion and the cultural foundations of the nation. Countries opposed to such legalization, and those having taken measures in recent years to legally reinforce the heterosexual fundaments of marriage, present a similar diversity. This diversity, in a globalized context where the idea of same-sex marriage has become integral to claims for LGBTI equality and indeed LGBTI human rights, gives rise to the following question: which factors contribute to institutionalizing same-sex marriage?0The analytical framework used for exploring these factors in this book is neo-institutionalism.
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