Framing morality policy issues: state legislative debates on abortion restrictions

Mucciaroni, Gary; Ferraiolo, Kathleen; Rubado, Meghan E.

doi:10.1007/s11077-018-9336-2

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“…One central finding from this stream of research is that the strength of this connection varies across citizens and issues (Ryan, 2014: 381). As a corollary, political actors can strategically appeal to divergent moral intuitions in their framing (Clifford et al, 2015) or even choose to discuss a putative morality issue in language that plays down questions of morality (Mucciaroni et al, 2019). Accordingly, the focus is on micro-level processes of opinion formation, and occasionally on the meso-level attempts to shape these.…”

Section: Morality Policy Issuesmentioning

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A partial micro-foundation for the ‘two-worlds’ theory of morality policymaking: Evidence from Germany

Arzheimer

2020

Research & Politics

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The two-worlds framework is currently the most important account of morality policymaking in Europe. For this theory of elite behaviour to be valid, a number of implicit assumptions about political belief systems at the mass level must hold. This contribution spells out these assumptions and tests them within a structural equation modelling framework, using original survey data from Germany, a country that constitutes a crucial case for the two-worlds theory. The results showed that the implicit individual-level preconditions of the two-worlds framework were fulfilled. Political secularism and partisanship were strongly associated. Political secularism also had strong effects on morality policy preferences regarding the preferred regulation of abortion, embryo and stem cell research, and gene therapies, even when controlling for a host of background variables. However, the size of the effects did not vary across politicised and non-politicised issues. This casts some doubt over the ability of partisan actors to unilaterally control the morality policy agenda.

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Section: Morality Policy Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A partial micro-foundation for the ‘two-worlds’ theory of morality policymaking: Evidence from Germany

Arzheimer

2020

Research & Politics

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“…Por último, como ya se anticipó, es importante no desconocer que la enmarcación pública de un problema suele formar parte de una agencia estratégica. Como apuntan Mucciaroni et al (2019), los actores se enfrentan a una diversidad de decisiones a la hora de presentar su concepción de un asunto problematizado, evaluando alternativamente la conveniencia de utilizar una o más enmarcaciones, la pertinencia de apelar a un encuadre conciliador o uno divergente y la efectividad de cada marco argumentativo para conseguir la mayor influencia. Simultáneamente, el resultado de estas ponderaciones tiende a estar sujeto a una importante variación en función del contexto espacial y temporal de pronunciación.…”

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¿Discursos de moralidad o de racionalidad? La Iglesia Católica argentina frente a la despenalización del consumo de drogas (2009-2019)

Ferreyra

2022

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Objetivo: conocer en qué grado los discursos públicos de la Iglesia Católica presentan a la despenalización del consumo adulto de drogas desde un encuadre moral, sustentando su oposición con base en argumentos deontológicos, antes que a partir de un encuadre racional-instrumental centrado en exponer los problemas técnicos o prever las consecuencias concretas de la medida. Metodología: se combinan técnicas cualitativas y cuantitativas para efectuar un análisis sistemático de los argumentos expuestos por parte de referentes eclesiales entre 2009 y 2019. Resultados: el encuadre moral posee una presencia minoritaria entre los pronunciamientos de la Iglesia respecto a la despenalización. Conclusiones: aunque estos hallazgos coinciden con la hipótesis de secularización estratégica, los argumentos examinados muestran una pluralidad que excede al discurso científico o legal, registros a los que usualmente se ha visto recurrir al activismo religioso a la hora de expresarse públicamente respecto a esta clase de temas.

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“…First, the idea of strategic emphasis on morality implies that elites can (try to) shape public attitudes on and perceptions of policies for their own gains (see e.g. Mucciaroni, Ferraiolo, and Rubado 2019).…”

Section: Public Opinion On Morality Issues and The Problem Of Representationmentioning

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Secular citizens, pious MPs: why German attitudes about genetic testing are much more permissive than German laws

Arzheimer

2020

Political Research Exchange

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Germany has lifted its total ban on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD, a form of genetic testing), but the new rules are still much stricter than those in other European countries. Results from a large-scale survey experiment show that the general population holds more permissive views on this bio-ethical question than lawmakers. In a country seen as a paradigm for the 'religious world' of morality politics, many citizens even support further liberalization along the lines of legislation in Belgium and the UK. Induced reflection on the arguments raised in parliament does not change this: arguments in favour of PGD are widely accepted by respondents, whereas many citizens reject the arguments against PGD. Citzens' and MPs' respective evaluations are affected strongly by religiosity, whose levels in the population are much lower than in parliament. Widespread secular views are not adequately represented in politics. This does not only concern the regulation of PGD but also other current and future bioethical issues. It is unlikely that this tension can be resolved through electoral politics. These findings have important ramifications not just for practical morality politics in Germany and other 'religious world' countries but also for the two worlds framework itself.

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Framing morality policy issues: state legislative debates on abortion restrictions

Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

A partial micro-foundation for the ‘two-worlds’ theory of morality policymaking: Evidence from Germany

A partial micro-foundation for the ‘two-worlds’ theory of morality policymaking: Evidence from Germany

¿Discursos de moralidad o de racionalidad? La Iglesia Católica argentina frente a la despenalización del consumo de drogas (2009-2019)

Secular citizens, pious MPs: why German attitudes about genetic testing are much more permissive than German laws

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