In The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada, sociologist Mildred A. Schwartz and political scientist Raymond Tatalovich bring their disciplinary insights to the study of moral issues. Beginning with prohibition, Schwartz and Tatalovich trace the phases of its evolution from emergence, establishment, decline and resurgence, to resolution. Prohibition’s life history generates a series of hypotheses about how passage through each of the phases affected subsequent developments and how these were shaped by the political institutions and social character of the United States and Canada. Using the history of prohibition in North America as a point of reference, the authors move on to address the anticipated progression and possible resolution of six contemporary moral issues: abortion, capital punishment, gun control, marijuana, pornography, and same-sex relations. Schwartz and Tatalovich build a new theoretical approach by drawing on scholarship on agenda-setting, mass media, social movements, and social problems. The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts provides new insights into how moral conflicts develop and interact with their social and political environment.
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Using the history of prohibition in North America as a point of reference, Schwartz and Tatalovich address the anticipated progression and possible resolution of six contemporary moral issues: abortion, capital punishment, gun control, marijuana, pornography, and same-sex relations.
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1. Why Moral Conflicts Matter 2. The Example of Prohibition 3. Issue Portraits 4. The Context of Moral Conflicts 5. The Emergence of Moral Conflicts 6. Establishment 7. Continuity, Decline, Resurgence 8. The Resolution of Moral Conflicts 9. The Phases of Moral Conflicts
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"This is an excellent book on comparative morality policy and comparative public policy in general. It provides detailed discussion of the policy life cycles of six morality issues. The books clearly fleshes out and explains why morality issues emerge, why they become established, and why they go through decline, resurgence, and resolution."
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"Mildred A. Schwartz and Raymond Tatalovich have taken on an exceedingly important and challenging task − explaining how both Canada and the United States have dealt with some of the most intensely emotional issues of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through meticulous and expansive analyses, rich with data and historical insight, they show how well we can understand processes of policy change and what we have yet to learn."
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ISBN
9781442637269
Publisert
2018-03-28
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
480 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

Mildred A. Schwartz is professor emerita in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago and visiting scholar, New York University. Raymond Tatalovich is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago.