Abortion Law and Political Institutions: Explaining Policy Resistance

by Jennifer Lee Thomson

This book provides a comprehensive study of abortion politics and policy in Northern Ireland. Whilst there is a substantial amount of literature on abortion in Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, there has been scant academic attention paid to the situation in Northern Ireland. Adopting a feminist institutionalist framework, the book illustrates the ways in which abortion has been addressed at both the national institution at Westminster...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319961683
• ISBN13: 9783319961682
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"