Is morality policy different? Institutional explanations for post-war Western Europe

Studlar, Donley T.; Cagossi, Alessandro; Duval, Robert D.

doi:10.1080/13501763.2013.761503

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“…Overall, however, we found no significant differences for any of the hypotheses on content and duration, irrespective of whether Italy was considered as a religious or secular party system. In contrast to earlier findings on Western Europe (Studlar et al 2013), this particular dimension of the Two Worlds model does not find support in the broader cross-national data.…”

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Toward the permissive society? Morality policy agendas and policy directions in Western democracies

Studlar

Burns

2015

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“…However, morality policy studies focusing on the explanations of process rather than agendas and content (Studlar et al 2013;Studlar and Burns 2014) have found some explanatory power for the Two Worlds theory as well as Policy Type. Thus there may be some form of interaction of institutions, party systems, and the policy agenda.…”

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2015

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“…Such situations are most likely to occur in decisions concerning moral policy where conflicting values need to be balanced (e.g., Baumann, Debus, and M€ uller 2015). Typically, they pit religious principles and morality against increasing medical and biotechnological possibilities (for a recent overview, see Heichel, Knill, and Schmitt 2013;Knill 2013;Studlar, Cagossi, and Duval 2013). With technical and medical advances, such decisions have grown in significance.…”

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Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policymaking

Baumann

Debus

Müller

2015

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Theoretical and empirical models of legislative decision making in parliamentary democracies typically neglect the policy preferences of individual MPs and instead focus on political parties and possible institutional constraints. We argue that MPs actually make judgments and decisions on the basis of their preferences, which are shaped by their personal characteristics. However, given the strength of parties in most parliamentary systems, the impact of personal characteristics on legislative behavior is rarely visible. Therefore, we examine a moral issue. Looking at cosponsorship, parliamentary speeches, and votes in the German Bundestag, we analyze the legislative procedure on the regulation of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in Germany in 2011. We show that the legislative behavior of MPs does not only reflect partisan conflict but is also influenced by the preferences of the constituents and MPs' own personal characteristics such as: religious denomination, gender, and parental status.

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“…Additional Supporting Information may be found in the online version of this article at the publisher's web-site: (Mooney 2001;Studlar et al 2013).…”

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Partisan effects in morality policy making

Budde¹,

Heichel²,

Hurka³

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European J Political Res

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Current comparative policy research gives no clear answer to the question of whether partisan politics in general or the partisan composition of governments in particular matter for different morality policy outputs across countries and over time. This article addresses this desideratum by employing a new encompassing dataset that captures the regulatory permissiveness in six morality policies that are homosexuality, same‐sex partnership, prostitution, pornography, abortion and euthanasia in 16 European countries over five decades from 1960 to 2010. Given the prevalent scepticism about a role for political parties for morality policies in existing research, this is a ‘hard’ test case for the ‘parties do matter’ argument. Starting from the basic theoretical assumption that different party families, if represented in national governments to varying degrees, ought to leave differing imprints on morality policy making, this research demonstrates that parties matter when accounting for the variation in morality policy outputs. This general statement needs to be qualified in three important ways. First, the nature of morality policy implies that party positions or preferences cannot be fully understood by merely focusing on one single cleavage alone. Instead, morality policy is located at the interface of different cleavages, including not only left‐right and secular‐religious dimensions, but also the conflicts between materialism and postmaterialism, green‐alternative‐libertarian and traditional‐authoritarian‐nationalist (GAL‐TAN) parties, and integration and demarcation. Second, it is argued in this article that the relevance of different cleavages for morality issues varies over time. Third, partisan effects can be found only if individual cabinets, rather than country‐years, are used as the unit of analysis in the research design. In particular, party families that tend to prioritise individual freedom over collective interests (i.e., left and liberal parties) are associated with significantly more liberal morality policies than party families that stress societal values and order (i.e., conservative/right and religious parties). While the latter are unlikely to overturn previous moves towards permissiveness, these results suggest that they might preserve the status quo at least. Curiously, no systematic effects of green parties are found, which may be because they have been represented in European governments at later periods when morality policy outputs were already quite permissive.

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Is morality policy different? Institutional explanations for post-war Western Europe

Cited by 62 publications

References 30 publications

Toward the permissive society? Morality policy agendas and policy directions in Western democracies

Toward the permissive society? Morality policy agendas and policy directions in Western democracies

Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policymaking

Partisan effects in morality policy making

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