Special Issue: Morality policies in Europe: concepts, theories, and empirical evidence

Contents of this Special Issue of the Journal of European Public Policy are:

+ The study of morality policy: analytical implications from a public policy perspective
Christoph Knill

+ Public policy meets morality: conceptual and theoretical challenges in the analysis of morality policy change
Stephan Heichel, Christoph Knill & Sophie Schmitt

+ The puzzle of permissiveness: understanding policy processes concerning morality issues
Isabelle Engeli, Christoffer Green-Pedersen & Lars Thorup Larsen

+ Is morality policy different? Institutional explanations for post-war Western Europe
Donley T. Studlar, Alessandro Cagossi & Robert D. Duval

+ From ‘morality’ policy to ‘normal’ policy: framing of drug consumption and gambling in Germany and the Netherlands and their regulatory consequences
Eva-Maria Euchner, Stephan Heichel, Kerstin Nebel & Andreas Raschzok

+ Framing and policy change after shooting rampages: a comparative analysis of discourse networks
Steffen Hurka & Kerstin Nebel

+ Diverging against all odds? Regulatory paths in embryonic stem cell research across Western Europe
Isabelle Engeli & Christine Rothmayr Allison

+ Regulating prostitution and same-sex marriage in Italy and Spain: the interplay of political and societal veto players in two catholic societies
Sophie Schmitt, Eva-Maria Euchner & Caroline Preidel

+ Policy entrepreneurs and controversial science: governing human embryonic stem cell research
Michael Mintrom

+ The political economy of Europeanized financial regulation
Daniel Mügge