Konservativ lovgivning fra en konservativ regering?
(2019) STVK02 20191Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Governments are exploring new ways to tackle the gender pay gap. Consequently a new generation of equal pay legislation has emerged through policy innovations. Yet Great Britain implemented relatively weak equal pay legislation in 2017. Through inductive process tracing of the legislation process this study investigates whether the composition of the parliamentary constituents, civil society actors and underlying factors can explain the extension of the British equal pay legislation. The study finds that the British government embodied an economic rationale based on conservative ideology and economic incentives. This lead the government to put forward a relatively weak law proposal. Due to an ideological affinity with the government and... (More)
- Governments are exploring new ways to tackle the gender pay gap. Consequently a new generation of equal pay legislation has emerged through policy innovations. Yet Great Britain implemented relatively weak equal pay legislation in 2017. Through inductive process tracing of the legislation process this study investigates whether the composition of the parliamentary constituents, civil society actors and underlying factors can explain the extension of the British equal pay legislation. The study finds that the British government embodied an economic rationale based on conservative ideology and economic incentives. This lead the government to put forward a relatively weak law proposal. Due to an ideological affinity with the government and sufficient strength, employers organizations managed to limit the extension of the legislation further through the innovation process. Therefore the passing of the bill was reduced to a formality. The result was comparably weak equal pay legislation. This study offers a theoretical contribution to the academic field by identifying two new factors affecting policy innovations: employer strength and economic incentives. (Less)
- Popular Abstract
- Governments are exploring new ways to tackle the gender pay gap. Consequently a new generation of equal pay legislation has emerged through policy innovations. Yet Great Britain implemented relatively weak equal pay legislation in 2017. Through inductive process tracing of the legislation process this study investigates whether the composition of the parliamentary constituents, civil society actors and underlying factors can explain the extension of the British equal pay legislation. The study finds that the British government embodied an economic rationale based on conservative ideology and economic incentives. This lead the government to put forward a relatively weak law proposal. Due to an ideological affinity with the government and... (More)
- Governments are exploring new ways to tackle the gender pay gap. Consequently a new generation of equal pay legislation has emerged through policy innovations. Yet Great Britain implemented relatively weak equal pay legislation in 2017. Through inductive process tracing of the legislation process this study investigates whether the composition of the parliamentary constituents, civil society actors and underlying factors can explain the extension of the British equal pay legislation. The study finds that the British government embodied an economic rationale based on conservative ideology and economic incentives. This lead the government to put forward a relatively weak law proposal. Due to an ideological affinity with the government and sufficient strength, employers organizations managed to limit the extension of the legislation further through the innovation process. Therefore the passing of the bill was reduced to a formality. The result was comparably weak equal pay legislation. This study offers a theoretical contribution to the academic field by identifying two new factors affecting policy innovations: employer strength and economic incentives. (Less)
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- author
- Maarup Thomsen, Lasse LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Et studie af ligelønslovgivning i Storbritannien
- course
- STVK02 20191
- year
- 2019
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- policy innovations, equal pay legislation, Great Britain, inductive process tracing, employers
- language
- Danish
- id
- 8975785
- date added to LUP
- 2019-09-06 09:58:35
- date last changed
- 2019-09-06 09:58:35
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abstract = {{Governments are exploring new ways to tackle the gender pay gap. Consequently a new generation of equal pay legislation has emerged through policy innovations. Yet Great Britain implemented relatively weak equal pay legislation in 2017. Through inductive process tracing of the legislation process this study investigates whether the composition of the parliamentary constituents, civil society actors and underlying factors can explain the extension of the British equal pay legislation. The study finds that the British government embodied an economic rationale based on conservative ideology and economic incentives. This lead the government to put forward a relatively weak law proposal. Due to an ideological affinity with the government and sufficient strength, employers organizations managed to limit the extension of the legislation further through the innovation process. Therefore the passing of the bill was reduced to a formality. The result was comparably weak equal pay legislation. This study offers a theoretical contribution to the academic field by identifying two new factors affecting policy innovations: employer strength and economic incentives.}},
author = {{Maarup Thomsen, Lasse}},
language = {{dan}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Konservativ lovgivning fra en konservativ regering?}},
year = {{2019}},
}