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Perils of success: backlash and resistance to LGBT rights in domestic and international politics: Crisis, Accountability, and Opportunity
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Perils of success: backlash and resistance to LGBT rights in domestic and international politics: Crisis, Accountability, and Opportunity

Phillip M Ayoub
Contracting human rights: crisis, accountability, and opportunity, pp 89-104
23 Feb 2018

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Human rights
This chapter explores why norms governing LGBT rights mobilize a backlash and/or enduring resistance in some cases and not in others. It explores the phenomena of resistance at two related levels. First, based on a comparison of Poland and Slovenia, I trace how differing perceptions of threat define the way international norms are received in distinct domestic realms. Second, I explore threat perception and resistance as part of the emerging phenomena of norm polarization at the global level. Such polarization refers to a process in which states resist norms by purposively taking contradictory positions on the same norm, leading to norm indeterminacy.

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