Agenda setting, agenda blocking and policy silence: Why is there no EU policy on prostitution?

Allwood, Gill

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2018.06.004

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“…We actually find more nuanced analysis of the EU's alleged silence on the matter. According to Gill Allwood (2018), prostitution is absent from the gender equality agenda of the EU because it is recurrently and actively blocked by the argument that it falls outside EU competences. Euchner and Engeli (2018), in turn, suggest that the lack of convergence in the politics of values between member states and the EU renders non-intervention the norm.…”

Section: The 'Eu Gap' In the Literature On Prostitution Policy In Europementioning

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The EU’s approach to prostitution: Explaining the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the EP’s neo-abolitionist turn

Grundell

2021

European Journal of Women's Studies

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The aim of this article is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the European Union’s neo-abolitionist approach to prostitution, drawing on the literature that addresses the global rise of neo-abolitionism and using key concepts developed by the gendered approaches to the European Union in order to adapt them to the particular context of the European Union. To do so, the article undertakes a critical frame analysis of the European Union’s violence against women policies, as it is in such policies that prostitution has been most thoroughly addressed, in combination with an analysis of the nature and evolution of the European Union’s gender equality policies more broadly. The article contends that the emergence of prostitution on the gender equality agenda of the European Union and the adoption of an explicit neo-abolitionist approach by the European Parliament can be explained by the coalescence, in the mid 1990s, of three key factors: Sweden’s accession to the European Union and the consequent positioning of Swedish femocrats, keen on exporting Sweden’s neo-abolitionist agenda to the European Union, in central positions of power within European Union institutions; the crystallisation of a robust neo-abolitionist velvet triangle through the creation of strong institutional links between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Women’s Lobby, which remained unchallenged; and the gradual development of a hybrid model of gender equality in the European Union which resonates with neo-abolitionist ideals at the same time as neo-abolitionism itself was increasingly associated to gender equality as a fundamental European Union value.

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Section: The 'Eu Gap' In the Literature On Prostitution Policy In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

The EU’s approach to prostitution: Explaining the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the EP’s neo-abolitionist turn

Grundell

2021

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…However, despite its established place on the development policy agenda, gender equality still suffers from poor implementation, limited resources and poor buy-in at the senior level. Relative power imbalances between different EU institutions mean that the agendas of some institutions are more directly linked to the decision agenda than others (Allwood, 2018a: 131), and, as stated earlier, development policy occupies a weak institutional position (Carrera, 2011).…”

Section: Gender Equality On the Development Policy Agendamentioning

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Gender Equality in European Union Development Policy in Times of Crisis

Allwood

2019

Political Studies Review

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Gender equality is firmly established on the European Union development policy agenda. However, a series of interrelated crises, including migration, security and climate change, are becoming more prominent in European Union development policy. This article asks whether development objectives have been subsumed under these crisis-driven European Union priorities, whether this is compatible with efforts to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment through development cooperation and whether it will affect the ability to keep gender equality high on the European Union’s development policy agenda. The theoretical framework draws on horizontal policy coordination and nexuses. The analysis of European Union development policy documents shows how migration, security and climate change are constructed as crises, how they intersect in various nexuses and how gender intersects with each of these nexuses. This research finds that gender equality is absent from the migration–security–climate nexuses, which are increasingly driving development policy priorities. The article argues that it is quite straightforward to keep gender equality on the development policy agenda, but it is difficult to retain a focus on gender equality when multiple policy areas intersect. The research suggests that the discourse of crisis has blocked the way, and this will have an impact on the European Union’s internal and external activities.

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“…When we talk about agenda setting we refer to the ability of a subject, also including a body or institution to identify issues of public interest that could be taken into consideration by the institutions and that can become the subject of a legislative intervention (Princen, 2007;Princen, 2012;Princen, 2015;Rauh, 2020) 8 . In particular, the agenda is a prerequisite and an essential step in the decision-making process (Allwood, 2018).…”

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Crisis of democratic legitimacy of the decision-making process of the Union and the role of the European Parliament

Liakopoulos¹

2023

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This paper seeks to examine the related issues and open discussions relating to the proposal to recognize the power/legislative right for requesting initiative in the European Parliament. The crisis of legitimacy of the Union has been noticed for some time and the requests for strengthening the decision-making process in a more democratic way by acting on the so-called legitimacy input needs an intervention on the agenda setter function but also through the related tools of democracy that we already know: citizens' initiative, petitions. We need a synergistic, analogue relationship between the institutions involved in the legislative decision-making sector but above all the spirit of the integrative history of the Union, the Treaties on the Union and representative and the participatory democracy as fundamental rights of the future of the EU.

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Agenda setting, agenda blocking and policy silence: Why is there no EU policy on prostitution?

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

The EU’s approach to prostitution: Explaining the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the EP’s neo-abolitionist turn

The EU’s approach to prostitution: Explaining the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the EP’s neo-abolitionist turn

Gender Equality in European Union Development Policy in Times of Crisis

Crisis of democratic legitimacy of the decision-making process of the Union and the role of the European Parliament

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