| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Christoph Knill, Christian Adam, and Steffen Hurka -- Conceptualizing and measuring styles of moral regulation / Christian Adam, Steffen Hurka, and Christopher Knill -- Empirical trends and conventional explanations: some puzzling misfits / Steffen Hurka, Christopher Knill, and Christian Adam -- Theoretical expectations regarding sources and directions of morality policy change / Christian Adam, Christoph Knill, and Steffen Hurka -- Abortion: finding the impossible compromise / Kerstin Nebel and Steffen Hurka -- Euthanasia: different moves towards punitive permissiveness / Caroline Preidel and Christoph Knill -- Pornography: 'soft-core' liberalization of indecent material in Europe / Christian Person -- Prostitution: sin, unavoidable evil, or recognized profession? / Eva-Maria Euchner and Christoph Knill -- Homosexuality: patterns of hidden compensation on the road towards sexual liberty / Steffen Heichel -- Handguns: on target for authority? /Steffen Hurka -- Gambling: erosion and persistence of domestic sports betting monopolies / Christian Adam -- Illegal drugs: two worlds of authority / Andreas Raschzok -- Conclusion / Christian Adam, Steffen Hurka, and Christopher Knill |
| Summary |
'On the road to permissiveness?' seeks to describe and explain how European countries have been resolving political issues that involve conflicts of fundamental values. Specifically, these political issues include the regulation of abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, prostitution, pornography, cannabis, sports betting, and handguns. The book addresses the empirical question of how morality policies have changed in recent decades and analyses the change and regulatory trends in different areas of morality policy. It provides a systematic long-term empirical assessment of morality policy change across countries and different fields of morality policy and compares morality policies in 19 OECD countries over a period of 50 years. 'On the Road to Permissiveness' is divided into three parts. Firstly, it discusses the conceptual framework and measurement approach developed by the editors and the theoretical framework guiding the empirical analyses. In the second part of the book, the editors explore the changes and trends in morality policies, and the third part develops theoretical conclusions and implications on the basis of these findings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political ethics -- Europe
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Political ethics
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045733
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Knill, Christoph, editor
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Adam, Christian, editor
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Hurka, Steffen, editor
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| ISBN |
9780191803987 |
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0191803987 |
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0191061557 |
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9780191061554 |
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