Full Description
Despite increasing legal recognition of animal rights, policy making remains inconsistent, and civil society's role in shaping governance is underexplored. Civil Society Activism and Animal Welfare Rights offers new empirical and theoretical insights into how advocacy groups influence animal welfare policy in the UK and India.
Applying extensive research and interviews with key animal welfare organisations, this book examines the challenges, progress and future prospects of civil society activism. It shows how animal rights and welfare have risen up the political agenda as parties have adapted to increasing public support.
This is a timely and in-depth analysis of the evolving landscape of animal rights and governance.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Civil society and animal welfare: international perspectives
3. New perspectives: civil society and animal welfare
4. New spaces? New agendas? Civil society and the electoral
politics of animal welfare
5. Challenging the lawmakers: lobbying Westminster
6. Challenging the lawmakers: lobbying the Welsh and Scottish
Governments and Parliaments
7. Civil society organisations' experiences of animal welfare
activism in New Delhi
8. Progress and future prospects for civil society activism and
animal welfare
