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    The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada

    Mildred A. Schwartz (Author), Raymond Tatalovich (Author)

    9781442628830

    Paperback / softback, published 20 February 2018

    240 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.38 kg

    "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."

    - Anthiony K. Fleming, University of West Georgia (American Review of Canadian Studies, vol 49 no 2)

    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.

    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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