Power and the Policy Process: The Discourse and Mobilization of Abortion, LGBTQIA, and Transgender Policy Advocates

Abstract

Reproductive-justice-informed perspectives have an opportunity to strengthen policy process research by foregrounding the power and privilege that exists within the policy process but is not often directly examined. Papers in this panel will each take a reproductive-justice-informed approach as they explore an element of the policy process—including but not limited to explorations of whose identities and discourses are represented and valued in policy debates, how marginalization shapes patterns of coalition-building and mobilization, how actors conceptualize and embed intersectionality in their policy advocacy and policy-making, and policy conflicts over competing definitions of justice. By pushing policy process research into the realm of reproductive justice, this panel presents an opportunity to generate meaningful theoretical advancements with scholarly and practical implications.

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