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POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY
Volume 65, Issue 2, Pages 330-345Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1065912910395323
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gender; abortion; reproductive technologies; public policy; European politics; fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
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How best to govern reproduction is the subject of heated controversies and policies on abortion and reproductive technologies present strong variations. Through fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, the article explores the interplay of institutional settings, Christian Democratic politics, women's movement, and Christian opposition in France and Switzerland since the 1970s. If little evidence is found for any institutional impact on policies regarding abortion and reproductive technologies, the analysis confirms the growing influence of the medical profession over reproductive issues and shows that the success of the women's movement has been fluctuating while prolife opposition seems to have gradually lost influence.
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