Love and the State: Gay Marriage in Spain

Méndez, Raquel Lucas Platero

doi:10.1007/s10691-007-9064-z

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“…This had all changed radically when the Social Democrats regained office in 2004 led by Zapatero, who dedicated a great deal of attention to morality issues during the campaign in order to profile the PSOE as the 'modern' party in Spanish politics. Once in power, the government first introduced same-sex marriage in 2005 (Platero 2007) and then a permissive abortion law in 2010. These laws met fierce resistance from the Conservative party and the Roman Catholic Church, but had the support of the majority of the Spanish population (Chaques and Roqué 2012).…”

Section: The Netherlands and Spain -Policy Dynamics In The Religious mentioning

confidence: 99%

The puzzle of permissiveness: understanding policy processes concerning morality issues

Engeli¹,

Green‐Pedersen

Larsen

2013

Journal of European Public Policy

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The growing interest in morality politics has spurred a large number of studies on individual morality issues and the gradual shift from restrictive to permissive regulation across Western Europe. Several studies have further pointed to the changing role of religion as the main cause of permissive policy shifts. However, seen in a comparative perspective across four countries and five morality issues, the move towards permissiveness poses more of a puzzle than a simple shift. Religion and secularization do not impact on regulation directly, but are filtered through a policy dynamic in which the essential factor is whether or not the party system contains a conflict line between secular and confessional parties. Countries without confessional parties, here the United Kingdom and Denmark, surprisingly end up less permissive than countries with strong confessional parties, here the Netherlands and Spain, because the former group lacks the conflict line necessary to politicize morality issues

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Section: The Netherlands and Spain -Policy Dynamics In The Religious mentioning

confidence: 99%

The puzzle of permissiveness: understanding policy processes concerning morality issues

Engeli¹,

Green‐Pedersen

Larsen

2013

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…While single case studies on the respective policy processes abound (see Danna [2004] andValiente Fernández [2004] for analyses on prostitution politics; cf. Calvo [2007] or Platero [2007] on the institutionalization of same-sex marriages in Spain), comparative approaches are still the exception. Only in the last decade have scholars of prostitution policy adopted a comparative perspective primarily based on actor-centred explanations (see Kilvington et al [2001], Outshoorn [2004] and West [2000] on prostitution politics; cf.…”

Section: Empirical Puzzle Research Question and Methodological Approachmentioning

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Regulating prostitution and same-sex marriage in Italy and Spain: the interplay of political and societal veto players in two catholic societies

Schmitt¹,

Euchner²,

Preidel³

2013

Journal of European Public Policy

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This contribution adds to the scholarship on morality politics. It addresses the conditions of morality policy change by comparing the decisionmaking dynamics in the regulation of prostitution and same-sex partnerships in Italy and Spain over two decades. We seek to explain why and under what circumstances some political actors are successful in reforming morality policies. For this purpose, we develop a four-fold typology of morality policy change. Our findings highlight that the different regulatory dynamics in both Catholic nation-states depend on the balance of power among the change and blocking coalitions and their degree of congruence. We show that governments succeed in realizing their morality policy goals only if they are able to form a coalition with the relevant political and societal actors. Furthermore, the Catholic Church, not least owing to its historical ties with both nation-states (Italy and Spain), plays a particular but context-specific role.

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“…While fascist Spain had confined women to the homes and marginalized them in public life, the new Spanish society sought to incorporate women equally into all aspects of society. Gender roles were to be redefined, which opened space for other groups marginalized by sexism, misogyny, and machismo (Platero, 2007). Therefore, Spaniards who had previously viewed homosexuality in a traditional, negative light, as illuminated by the Catholic Church and fashttp://scholarship.claremont.edu/urceu/vol2011/iss1/6 cism were willing to look on LGBT people with openness.…”

Section: Reasons Behind Spain's Acceptance Of Same-sex Marriagementioning

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Same-Sex Marriage on the Iberian Peninsula: The Church and Franco’s Competing Legacies

Jennings¹

2011

URCEU

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Love and the State: Gay Marriage in Spain

Cited by 40 publications

References 6 publications

The puzzle of permissiveness: understanding policy processes concerning morality issues

The puzzle of permissiveness: understanding policy processes concerning morality issues

Regulating prostitution and same-sex marriage in Italy and Spain: the interplay of political and societal veto players in two catholic societies

Same-Sex Marriage on the Iberian Peninsula: The Church and Franco’s Competing Legacies

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