dc.contributor.author | Berglund, Moa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-29T10:55:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-29T10:55:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-04-29 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2077/71460 | |
dc.description.abstract | In Europe, abortion policy shifts drastically across the region despite the EU´s efforts to make it
equally accessible. The differences in access to abortion are often connected to the level of religious
impact on the government, and Roman Catholicism is often viewed as the villain when an EU
country restricts its abortion and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) policies. This
thesis will through a process-tracing method and a Feminist Global Political Economy (FGPE) theoretical
framework, look at two of the most Roman Catholic states within the EU, Ireland and Poland,
to see if there are alternative explanations for the Catholic Church´s influence. Ireland and Poland
are interesting cases because they both have had major changes in their SRHR and abortion
policies since 1990, however, the changes have been in the opposite direction. The background in
this thesis shows an overview of Ireland becoming more liberal -and Poland's becoming more
restricted- in their abortion policies. Later with the use of the FGPE theoretical framework, focusing
on Neoliberalism, Household and Social Reproduction and Reproductive governance, this thesis
examines alternative explanations for these shifts in abortion policy. This study found that there seems
to be a correlation between the adaptation to the neoliberal agenda and abortion policies. However,
one cannot argue state that there is a clear causality between the two, because many factors
have affected the abortion policy in both countries. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Student essay | en_US |
dc.subject | Feminist Global Political Economy | en_US |
dc.subject | Abortion Policy | en_US |
dc.subject | SRHR | en_US |
dc.subject | Poland, | en_US |
dc.subject | Ireland, | en_US |
dc.subject | Process-Tracing | en_US |
dc.title | Effects of the neoliberal agenda on abortion policy and sexual rights in Poland and Ireland. A Comparative Feminist Global Political Economy analysis | en_US |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.setspec.uppsok | SocialBehaviourLaw | |
dc.type.uppsok | H2 | |
dc.contributor.department | University of Gothenburg/School of Global Studies | eng |
dc.contributor.department | Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier | swe |
dc.type.degree | Student essay | |