Morality Politics in a Secular Age

Eva-Maria Euchner is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. She studied Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. Her research trajectory focuses on morality politics, religion and legislative behaviour. She has published articles in the Journal of European Public Policy, Politics and Religion and Parliamentary Affairs.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Morality policy as a party issue in a secular age.- 3 A new framework of attention on and change of morality issues in parliaments of the religious world.- 4 Comparing attention and change in morality issues.- 5 The rise and fall of morality policies in Austria, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands.- 6 Mechanisms of wedge issue competition.- 7 Explaining patterns of morality policy change in Austria, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands.- 8 The indirect effect of parliamentary attention on morality policy change through the stimulation of venue shifts and changing policy images.- 9 Morality politics in a secular age.