Kelly Kollman - The Same-Sex Unions Revolution in Western Democracies: International Norms and Domestic Policy Change

The same-sex unions revolution in western democracies

Kelly Kollman

Manchester University Press

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As is the case with all projects that drag out over years I have numerous people to thank for their input, support and guidance, more than is possible to do here with any adequacy. But I will give it a go anyway.

First, I would like to thank all of my colleagues who over the years have either read different bits of what eventually became this book or talked me through parts of the argument, generally when they had better things to do. This includes colleagues from my first job at Carleton College in the US such as Barb Allen, Annette Nierobisz and Kim Smith, as well as current colleagues from Glasgow such as Alasdair Young, MyrtoTsakatika, Maurizio Carbone, Cian ODriscoll, Naomi Head, David Karp, Kurt Mills, Jane Duckett, Mo Hume and Ana Langer. I would also like to thank my politics colleagues at Glasgow more generally for being an extremely supportive group. My occasional grumpiness aside, I hope it is clear that I feel very privileged to work with them.

I also have roped other people into helping me with this project at various points. Maggie Murray was always there to assist me and lend helpful advice in my never-ending battles with Microsoft Word. Dorien Keizer and Hanna Lorenzen served as very able research assistants for the Dutch and German cases respectively. I also would like to thank Jutta Joachim and the Institut fuer Politische Wissenschaft at Leibniz Universitaet Hannover for giving me an academic home while doing research in Germany. Joke Swiebel in Amsterdam was a great help to me while doing field work in the Netherlands and has been an incredible source of insight about LGBT politics in Europe more generally. I also have been privileged to collaborate directly with three colleagues, David Paternotte, Matthew Waites and Grace Skogstad, while doing research on LGBT politics. I have learned a great deal from all three of them. I would be remiss if I did not thank the editors at MUP as well as the anonymous reviewers, first for commissioning the manuscript and then for working patiently with me to edit and bring it to completion. I would also like to thank Carleton College, the University of Glasgow and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland for supporting my research in Canada, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

As always I am deeply grateful for the warmth, love and support of my parents, Jerry Kollman and Katie Kollman.

I owe my greatest debt of gratitude to Karen Wright, without whom this book, whatever its merits, simply would not exist. She has put up with years of me rushing through the door of our flat, generally pretty late in the evening, and launching into a conversation about my latest crisis with the argument, often without so much as a hello. Her insights and advice have made this a significantly better book; although she might not believe this, I took her advice a great deal more often than not. In addition to talking me through various impasses, she has read and edited countless iterations of every section of the manuscript. Most importantly, however, she has made my life a much happier one.

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