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Legal path dependence and the long arm of the religious state : sodomy provisions and gay rights across nations and over time /
Bringing together theoretical perspectives from both comparative politics and public law, this book examines the reasons why certain countries criminalize same-sex activities while others have carved into law the requirement that sexual minority communities be protected. The authors break new ground...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2016].
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures ; List of Tables ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; The Importance of de jure Provisions; This Book's Argument; Path Dependence; State-Religion Relations and Prohibitions on Sodomy; Existing Accounts in the Literature; Democratic Conditions and Sodomy Laws; Economic Development, Modernization, and Sodomy Laws; Globalization and Sodomy Laws; Data and Methods for the Book; Outline of the Book; Chapter 2: The History of Sodomy Laws and the Theory of Legal Path Dependence ; A Male Heir; Breaking Away with Rome.
- Medieval Bases of Modern Sodomy Laws and the Sodomy Laws in England in the Middle AgesThe Buggery Act of 1533; Path Dependence and Its Three Pillars in Common Law Systems; The First Pillar of Legal Path Dependence: Colonial Codification; (1) The Elphinstone Code of 1827 for the Presidency of Bombay in India ; (2) The Indian Penal Code of 1860-The Macaulay Code ; (3) The Fitzjames Stephen Code ; (4) The Griffith Code; (5) The Wright Penal Code; The Second Pillar of Legal Path Dependence: Legislative Decisions; The Third Pillar of Legal Path Dependence: Judicial Rulings.
- Legal Path Dependence in Civil Law and the Repeal of Sodomy Laws in Revolutionary FranceCivil Law; The Napoleonic Code and Sodomy Provisions; Chapter 3: The Religious State and Death Penalty for Sodomy ; Death Penalty for Same-Sex Relations and Limitations on Religious Freedom; Common Law and Capital Punishment for Sodomy; Religion and Death Penalty for Gays: The Empirical Test; Chapter 4: Sodomy Provisions and Their Repeal ; Democratic Conditions and Political Opportunity Structure for Minorities; The State of Economic Development and Modernization; Globalization.
- Dependent Variable: Sodomy ProvisionsExplanatory Variables; Results; Decriminalization of Sodomy via Courts and Legislatures; Path Dependence, Sodomy Provisions, and Courts; Can Courts Repeal Sodomy Provisions?; Legal Path Dependence and Sodomy Repeal in Divergent Institutional Contexts; Testing the Effects of Institutional Settings on the Repeal of Sodomy Laws; Results; Chapter 5: Equalization of Rights ; Explaining Rights; Domestic Forces; Political Inclusion and Domestic Norm Spillover; The Effects of Culture and Religion; Global and International Influences; Human Rights Covenants.
- International Labor OrganizationCross-Country Norm Cascade-Globalization; Empirical Analyses of Equality Under the Law for Sexual Minorities; Results; Final Thoughts about Discrimination Against the LGBT Community; Chapter 6: The Gay Rights Index ; Levels of Legal Protection for Sexual Minorities; The Gay Rights Index; Multivariate Analyses of the Predictors of the Gay Rights Index; Chapter 7: Conclusions ; Appendix A: Descriptive Statistics ; Appendix B: A Correlation Matrix ; Appendix C: Supporting Analyses and Robustness Tests ; Appendix D: Supporting Analyses and Robustness Tests.