Morality Politics in a Secular Age Strategic Parties and Divided Governments in Europe /

• Main Author: Euchner, Eva-Maria (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Comparative Studies of Political Agendas
• Subjects: Public policy.; Religion and politics.; Political science.; Europe-Politics and government.; Democracy.; Comparative politics.; Public Policy.; Politics and Religion.; Governance and Government.; European Politics.; Comparative Politics.

"Euchner's carefully researched and cogently argued study of morality politics in Europe adds an outstanding piece of research to the ever growing literature on religion and politics. Its combination of quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis involving a novel data set and cross-...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Morality policy as a party issue in a secular age
• 3 A new framework of attention on and change of morality issues in parliaments of the religious world
• 4 Comparing attention and change in morality issues
• 5 The rise and fall of morality policies in Austria, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands
• 6 Mechanisms of wedge issue competition
• 7 Explaining patterns of morality policy change in Austria, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands
• 8 The indirect effect of parliamentary attention on morality policy change through the stimulation of venue shifts and changing policy images
• 9 Morality politics in a secular age.