The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese context
This article will examine the determinants of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) policy adoption in Shibuya, one of the twenty-three city wards of Tokyo, by taking an actor-specific approach to the first case of officially recognized same-sex partnership in Japan. How did the sexual mino...
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| description | This article will examine the determinants of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) policy adoption in Shibuya, one of the twenty-three city wards of Tokyo, by taking an actor-specific approach to the first case of officially recognized same-sex partnership in Japan. How did the sexual minority issue become the subject of official agendas? How did actors both inside and outside the municipal government seize agenda-setting opportunities for government action? The results indicate that key policy makers’ entrepreneurship played a primary role in the official recognition of same-sex partnership by linking policy solutions with agenda-setting opportunities. This analysis demonstrates that the adoption of municipal LGBT policy does not necessarily reflect the redistribution of non-material resources, such as citizen values, but rather resembles the patterns of welfare politics. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-505752019-03-15T05:37:50Z The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese context Takao, Yasuo This article will examine the determinants of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) policy adoption in Shibuya, one of the twenty-three city wards of Tokyo, by taking an actor-specific approach to the first case of officially recognized same-sex partnership in Japan. How did the sexual minority issue become the subject of official agendas? How did actors both inside and outside the municipal government seize agenda-setting opportunities for government action? The results indicate that key policy makers’ entrepreneurship played a primary role in the official recognition of same-sex partnership by linking policy solutions with agenda-setting opportunities. This analysis demonstrates that the adoption of municipal LGBT policy does not necessarily reflect the redistribution of non-material resources, such as citizen values, but rather resembles the patterns of welfare politics. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50575 10.5509/20179017 University of British Columbia fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Takao, Yasuo The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese context |
| title | The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese context |
| title_full | The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese context |
| title_fullStr | The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese context |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese context |
| title_short | The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese context |
| title_sort | politics of lgbt policy adoption: shibuya ward’s same sex partnership certificates in the japanese context |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50575 |