Markets and Moral Regulation: Cultural Change in the European Union (Themes in European Governance) - Softcover

Kurzer, Paulette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521003954 ISBN 13: 9780521003957

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Does European integration influence national cultures and social policies? Is Europe's fabled cultural diversity diminishing? In this book, Paulette Kurzer examines these important and topical questions by comparing the Irish abortion ban, Finnish and Swedish drinking restrictions, and Dutch drug decriminalization. Employing a synthesis of constructivist and institutionalist theories, Kurzer demonstrates that domestic shifts in values and attitudes, spurred along by the impact of EC/EU market integration, are in fact bringing about a convergence in European morality norms. Alcohol control policies are forced to liberalize, the Irish abortion proscription is being redefined, and Dutch drug toleration is pushed into a more punitive direction. Markets and Moral Regulation argues that a crucial agency is European law and its role as a market regulator: as market forces invade these cultural and moral spheres, protective barriers disintegrate. The result is that cultural and social domains are increasingly exposed to the influence of market competition.

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Paperback. Pub Date: July. 2001 Pages: 342 Publisher: Camidge. University Press Does European integration influence NATIONAL Cultures and Social Policies Is Europe's Fabled CULTURAL withdiversity of diminishing Paulette Kurzer examines these Important and Topical questions by comparing the Irish abortion ban. Finnish and Swedish drinking restrictions. and Dutch drug decriminalization. Employing a synthesis of constructivist and institutionalist theories. Kurzer demonstrates that domestic shifts in values ??and attitudes. spurred along by the impact of ECEU market integration. are in fact inging about a convergence in European morality norms. Alcohol control policies are forced to liberalize. the Irish abortion proscription is being redefined. and Dutch drug toleration is pushed into a more punitive direction. Markets and Moral Regulation argues that a crucial agency is Europ...

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'It is a fascinating and well constructed work in a rather under-researched are in political science...and richly informed by the conceptual and analytical tools of comparative politics.' West European Politics

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521003954
• ISBN 13: 9780521003957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224