عنوان

Diffusion or Dissent: Examining International Family Planning Frames and Domestic Policy Divergence

Number

TL49346

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Diffusion or Dissent: Examining International Family Planning Frames and Domestic Policy Divergence

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Gillian C. Beach

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Herron, Erik; Loyle, Cyanne

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

West Virginia University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

208

Text of Note

Committee members: Duval, Robert; Worsham, Jeffrey

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-76513-7

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Political Science

Body granting the degree

West Virginia University

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This dissertation explores how issue framing within an international advocacy movement influences and is influenced by the framing of the same issue within politically differentiated regimes, and examines this question through an analysis of the international family planning movement. Existing work on both policy diffusion and international advocacy presents strong evidence that the international community has a powerful effect on the framing and development of domestic policy. However, there is room for refinement of the literature in addressing how international actors affect policy trajectories within dissenting regimes-that is, regimes that espouse explicitly anti-Western ideologies, but which are nevertheless active in the international community. To examine this relationship, I employ a comparative case study of the Cuban and Iranian family planning movements, using content analysis of archival data and process tracing methods. While both Cuba and Iran have developed strong family planning programs and have actively sought international support in the process, they have also promoted family planning frames consistent with their own national ideologies. Thus, these movements offer the opportunity to explore the dynamics of dissenting regime policy framing and its interactions with the international arena, and to enhance understanding of the relationship between international activism and domestic policy development.

Political science

Subject Term

Social sciences;Advocacy;Cuba;Family planning;Iran;Issue framing;Policy diffusion

Khanolkar, Prasad

Herron, Erik; Loyle, Cyanne

Subdivision

Political Science

West Virginia University

Call Number

1901023270; 10270727

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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