Tragic deaths create political windows only where coalitions have pre-built scaffolding

Evidence

The bill had existed for years because advocates had been working on it for years. Not one advocate. Dozens. Social workers, pediatricians, legal scholars, child welfare organizations, survivors, parliamentarians who had been introducing versions of the legislation since the mid-2000s. The bill did not pass because Bernardo died. It passed because a coalition had built the scaffolding for it to pass, and Bernardo’s death created the political moment that the scaffolding was ready to receive. — , The Rod and the Child, 9048

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political leader responses define how shared tragedies are framed — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 218; Shared trauma alone cannot found a political community

Related

• Shared trauma alone cannot found a political community (similarity 0.92)
• Political leader responses define how shared tragedies are framed (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Political leader responses define how shared tragedies are framed #expands (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 218