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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:05:56 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: CFP: Morality Policy (fwd)
 
The enclosed posting may be of interest to ATHG subscribers.
 
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Jack Blocker
History, Huron College, University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario N6G 1H3 Canada
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Subject: Weekend Digest I, January 25, 1997
 
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[1] CFP: Morality Policy
 
       CALL FOR PAPERS: THE POLITICS OF MORALITY POLICY
 
        Policy Studies Journal will publish a refereed special symposium on
the politics of morality policy.  Morality policy involves governmental
efforts to regulate morally contentious behavior, and/or other government
policy that evokes strong first principle-based conflict in the public.
These include such issues as abortion, capital punishment, homosexual rights,
gambling, animal rights, pornography and school prayer.  These are among
today's most salient policy issues in the U.S. and abroad, and their impact
on electoral and legislative politics has been significant.  Perhaps
surprisingly, therefore, morality policy has only recently begun to be
studied as a class by scholars.
 
        Morality policy is especially interesting to political scientists
because there is emerging evidence that its politics are quite different in
many interesting ways than the politics surrounding other types of policy.
Each of the papers in this symposium should explore the unique characteristics
of morality policy in terms of its adoption, diffusion, implementation, and/or
other policy processes by looking at one or more specific policies, ideally
with a cross-state, cross- nation, and/or over-time perspective.  These
papers should especially examine the extent to which morality policy is
different than or similar to other types of policy in these processes.
Papers dealing with public opinion and elections are not appropriate.  The
goal of this symposium is to move toward defining morality policy,
identifying its unique political patterns, and mapping out what difference
these differences make.
 
        To be considered for inclusion in this symposium, papers should be
approximately 15-25 pages in length, and submitted to Christopher Z. Mooney,
Guest Editor, Department of Political Science, Box 6317, West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV 26505-6317.  Deadline for submission is
October 1, 1997.
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