Document Type
Article
Date
8-20-2008
Disciplines
Political Science
Description/Abstract
This article evaluates the widespread scholarly claim that the courtroom victories of the LGBT rights movement have invariably provoked a counterproductive political backlash. Those victories have indeed provoked conservative counter-mobilization, but that has not been their only or even their most prominent effect. Assessing the political reaction to the movement’s judicial victories, the policy impact of those victories, and the alternative strategic paths that were available to the movement at the outset, I argue that here, as elsewhere, legal mobilization has sometimes been a promising avenue for pursuing policy changes whose prospects were otherwise quite limited.
Recommended Citation
Keck, Thomas, "Beyond Backlash: Assessing the Impact of Judicial Decisions on LGBT Rights" (2008). Political Science - All Scholarship. 13.
https://surface.syr.edu/psc/13
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