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Morality Politics in Western Europe

Parties, Agendas and Policy Choices

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Comparative Studies of Political Agendas (CSPA)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Isabelle Engeli, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Lars Thorup Larsen
    Pages 1-4
  3. Theoretical Perspectives on Morality Issues

    • Isabelle Engeli, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Lars Thorup Larsen
    Pages 5-26
  4. How to Study the Two Worlds of Morality Politics

    • Isabelle Engeli, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Lars Thorup Larsen
    Pages 27-34
  5. Morality Issues in the Netherlands: Coalition Politics under Pressure

    • Arco Timmermans, Gerard Breeman
    Pages 35-61
  6. From Prohibition to Permissiveness: A Two-Wave Change on Morality Issues in Spain

    • Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Anna M. Palau Roqué
    Pages 62-87
  7. Morality Politics in Switzerland: Politicization through Direct Democracy

    • Isabelle Engeli, Frédéric Varone
    Pages 88-113
  8. Morality Politics in the United Kingdom: Trapped between Left and Right

    • Lars Thorup Larsen, Donley T. Studlar, Christoffer Green-Pedersen
    Pages 114-136
  9. Morality Issues in Denmark: Policies Without Politics

    • Erik Albæk, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Lars Thorup Larsen
    Pages 137-160
  10. The Two Worlds of Morality Politics — What Have We Learned?

    • Isabelle Engeli, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Lars Thorup Larsen
    Pages 185-199
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 200-216

About this book

Why do some countries have 'Culture Wars' over morality issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage while other countries hardly experience any conflict? This book argues that morality issues only generate major conflicts in political systems with a significant conflict between religious and secular parties.

Keywords

  • conflict
  • democracy
  • morality
  • Policy

Reviews

'Pathbreaking in its theoretical insight and scope of coverage, Morality Politics in Western Europe solves the puzzle of how and where moral conflicts arise in a secularized Europe... This original contribution is essential reading for all scholars and students of public policy, comparative studies, and religion and politics.'

- Raymond Tatalovich, Professor of Political Science, Loyola University, Chicago, USA

'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, the studies collected in this book explain the puzzling fact of why in some countries morality issues become politically explosive, while in others they sometimes do not even reach the political agenda. This is a well-written, authoritative and easily accessible contribution to our comparative understanding of what provokes and

what dampens conflict around morality issues.'

- Kees van Kersbergen, Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark

'Morality Politics in Western Europe is a breakthrough piece of scholarship. These scholars are the first to explore systematically the causes and effects of morality-based policy issues outside the US... The work is truly comparative in the best sense, revealing what has heretofore been largely ignored by political scientists that while morality issues in Europe constitute perhaps a small proportion of the overall public agenda, they - play an outsized role in defining politics there.'

- Christopher Mooney, Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Springfield, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Isabelle Engeli

  • Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University, Denmark

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Lars Thorup Larsen

About the editors

ERIK ALBÆK Professor, University of Southern Denmark GERARD BREEMAN Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Wageningen University, the Netherlands LAURA CHAQUÉS Bonafont Professor, University of Barcelona and Research Fellow, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain ANNA M. PALAU Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Barcelona, Spain DONLEY T. STUDLAR Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University, USA ARCO TIMMERMANS Research Director, Montesquieu Institute for comparative studies of parliamentary systems in the EU, the Hague, the Netherlands FRÉDÉRIC VARONE Professor of Political Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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