Asal / Sommer Legal Path Dependence and the Long Arm of the Religious State

Sodomy Provisions and Gay Rights across Nations and over Time
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6325-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A comparative examination of the political, historical, legal, and religious antecedents of penalties and discrimination against sexual minority groups around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asal, Victor

Sommer, Udi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The History of Sodomy Laws and the Theory of Legal Path Dependence

3. The Religious State and Death Penalty for Sodomy

4. Sodomy Provisions and Their Repeal

5. Equalization of Rights

6. The Gay Rights Index

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
Appendix E: Supporting Analyses and Robustness Tests
Appendix F: Illustrations

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Victor Asal is Chair of Public Administration and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York and the coauthor (with Paul G. Harwood) of Educating the First Digital Generation. Udi Sommer is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and a member of both the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center and Israeli Young Academy. He is the author of Supreme Court Agenda Setting: Strategic Behavior During Case Selection.