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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction; I.Engeli , C.Green-Pedersen & L.T.Larsen Theoretical Perspectives on Morality Issues; I.Engeli , C.Green-Pedersen & L.T.Larsen How to Study the Two Worlds of Morality Politics; I.Engeli , C.Green-Pedersen & L.T.Larsen Morality Issues in the Netherlands: Coalition Politics under Pressure; A.Timmermans & G.Breeman From Prohibition to Permissiveness: a Two Wave Change on Morality Issues in Spain; L.Chaqués Bonafont & A.M.Palau Roqué Morality Politics in Switzerland: Politicization through Direct Democracy; I.Engeli & F.Varone Morality Politics in the United Kingdom: Trapped Between Left and Right; L.T.Larsen , D.T.Studlar & C.Green-Pedersen Morality Issues in Denmark: Policies without Politics; E.Albæk ; C.Green-Pedersen & L.T.Larsen The US and Western Europe Compared: How the ‘God Gap’ Led the US to Join the Religious World of Morality Politics; D.T.Studlar The Two Worlds of Morality Politics – What Have We Learned? I.Engeli , L.T.Larsen & C.Green-Pedersen
Circa l’autore
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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