title: Europeanization in making policies against domestic violence in Central and Eastern Europe.
abstract: This article looks at how Europe matters in the development of policies against domestic violence, a gender equality field outside the core European Union (EU) conditionality criteria. By analyzing the concrete workings and uses of Europe's domestic violence policy-making in five Central and Eastern European countries, it identifies three mechanisms of Europeanization in the field and shows how together they work to expand the reach of the EU to this policy realm. The findings point toward an understanding of Europeanization based on social learning and dynamic, interactive processes of constructing what membership in the EU means in terms of domestic violence policy processes.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Krizsan
authors.forename: Raluca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Popa
mesh_terms: D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D005060:Europe / Q000208:ethnology; D005061:Europe, Eastern / Q000208:ethnology; D005062:European Union / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D005191:Family Characteristics / Q000208:ethnology; D005192:Family Health / Q000208:ethnology; D005783:Gender Identity; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011050:Policy Making; D011640:Public Policy / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence