The same-sex marriage debate in the us and representations of Scandinavia

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Ashbee
Keyword(s):  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Us

The Diffusion of Support for Same-Sex Marriage in the US Senate

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (04) ◽  
pp. 824-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean M. Theriault ◽  
Herschel F. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Equality ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Senate

ABSTRACTAdvocates for same-sex marriage have had much to celebrate. The last few years have shown that state after state and senator after senator have declared their support for full marriage equality. Such momentum suggests that their goals will be realized sooner rather than later. In this article, we analyze when senators announce their support for same-sex marriage. Contrary to the popularly held belief that their decisions will quickly snowball into filibuster-proof numbers, we find that most of the easy successes have already been achieved. The difficulty of securing the last few votes may take much longer.

scholarly journals Negativity Spreads More than Positivity on Twitter After Both Positive and Negative Political Situations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Paul Schöne ◽  
Brian Parkinson ◽  
Amit Goldenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Negative Finding ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Content Sharing ◽  
Emotional Language ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Supreme Court ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractWhat type of emotional language spreads further in political discourses on social media? Previous research has focused on situations that primarily elicited negative emotions, showing that negative language tended to spread further. The current project extends existing knowledge by examining the spread of emotional language in response to both predominantly positive and negative political situations. In Study 1, we examined the spread of emotional language in tweets related to the winning and losing parties in the 2016 US elections, finding that increased negativity (but not positivity) predicted content sharing in both situations. In Study 2, we compared the spread of emotional language in two separate situations: the celebration of the US Supreme Court approval of same-sex marriage (positive) and the Ferguson unrest (negative), finding again that negativity spread further. These results shed light on the nature of political discourse and engagement.

scholarly journals Negativity Spreads More than Positivity on Twitter after both Positive and Negative Political Situations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Schöne ◽  
Brian Parkinson ◽  
Amit Goldenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Negative Finding ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Content Sharing ◽  
Emotional Language ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Supreme Court ◽  
Shed Light

What type of emotional language spreads further in political discourses on social media? Previous research has focused on situations that primarily elicited negative emotions, showing that negative language tended to spread further. The current project addressed the gap introduced when looking only at negative situations by comparing the spread of emotional language in response to both predominantly positive and negative political situations. In Study 1, we examined the spread of emotional language among tweets related to the winning and losing parties in the 2016 US elections, finding that increased negativity (but not positivity) predicted content sharing in both situations. In Study 2, we compared the spread of emotional language in two separate situations: the celebration of the US Supreme Court approval of same-sex marriage (positive), and the Ferguson Unrest (negative), finding again that negativity spread further. These results shed light on the nature of political discourse and engagement.

scholarly journals Homonegative attitides after Obergefell v. Hodges. Quasi-experimental evidence of anticipatory backlash abroad

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart James Turnbull-Dugarte
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Test ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Policy Feedback ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Us ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Mass Attitudes

Does the expansion of LGBT+ rights in the US affect mass attitudes towards sexual minorities abroad? Relying on a quasi-experiment presented by the as good as random exposure to news regarding the US’s legalisation of same-sex marriage in the landmark US Supreme Court case - Obergefell vs Hodges – in Israel, I present an empirical test of the cross-national effect of LGBT+ rights advances in the US on mass attitudes abroad. Empirically, I rely on data from wave 7 of the European Social survey to show that legalising same-sex marriage engendered a popular backlash towards homosexuality amongst Israeli citizens and that this rise in homonegativity was greatest amongst women. In contrast to the domestic tolerance-inducing effects of policy feedback at home, this study shows that advances in domestic LGBT+ rights can trigger a negative response among citizens beyond the confines of a state’s borders.

Comparing Same-Sex Marriage in Australia and Canada: Institutions and Political Will

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Johnson ◽  
Manon Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Electoral Strategies ◽  
The Us

This article explores why there have been such different trajectories in regard to same-sex marriage in Australia and Canada. Canada was one of the first countries to introduce same-sex marriage (in 2005) and, at time of writing, Australia still had not done so.1 The comparison is particularly interesting given that Australia and Canada have relatively similar political institutions except that Australia has no Charter of Rights. Miriam Smith has suggested that institutional factors explain the different trajectories of policies on same-sex marriage in Canada and the US. However, the shift in comparative lens to Canada and Australia provides new insights into the key role of factors influencing ‘political will’ in regard to same-sex marriage in both countries. Those multiple influences do include institutions but also the role played by party electoral strategies. Consequently, the article provides insights into the factors that can influence minority group rights in different national democratic settings.

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