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

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Tables......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
1 Markets versus morality......Page 15
Cultural norms and national identity......Page 18
The European Union and morality norms......Page 24
Diffusion of norms and adaptation of European standards......Page 27
Agent of change: movement of people......Page 31
Cracks in the morality frameworks......Page 33
Europeanization of norms......Page 36
Looking ahead......Page 38
2 Binge drinking: the evolution of alcohol control policy in Finland......Page 41
Alcohol legislation, voluntary associations and prohibition......Page 44
The alcohol question in a broader context......Page 47
Institutions of the alcohol policy regime......Page 51
Ideas and rationalizing the commitment to temperance......Page 53
The impact of alcohol control policies......Page 59
Conclusion......Page 61
3 Our greatest social problem: anti-alcohol policy in Sweden......Page 63
A detour: why no restrictive drinking measures in Denmark?......Page 65
A century of Swedish anti-alcohol activism and debate......Page 68
Bratt system: 1917–1955......Page 72
Post-Bratt system: the creation of Systembolaget......Page 73
Rationalizing and preserving alcohol control policies......Page 76
Societal and state interests......Page 77
Ideas: rationalization of alcohol control policy......Page 79
Conclusion......Page 85
4 Nordic morality meets the European Union......Page 87
The Nordic countries and the application to join the European Union......Page 88
The alcohol question in the EU......Page 91
After membership......Page 95
Court case: Allmänna Åklagaren vs. Harry Franzén (C-189/95)......Page 98
Domestic trends and external pressures......Page 100
Conclusion......Page 108
5 Permissive pragmatism: drug control policy in the Netherlands......Page 111
Detour: Protestant nations and intoxication......Page 113
Institutions: law enforcement and drug policy in the 1970s......Page 120
Revision of the 1919 Opium Act in 1976......Page 122
Harm reduction in the 1980s......Page 124
Effectiveness of drug policy......Page 126
Contradictions and ambiguities......Page 129
Conclusion......Page 133
6 Harm reduction meets the EU: from public health to public order......Page 135
Constraints by Europe on national drug policy......Page 138
Diplomatic tension and drug tourism......Page 142
Institutional and political ramifications......Page 148
Conclusion......Page 155
7 Irish moral conservatism and European sexual permissiveness......Page 157
Catholic influence in Irish politics and institutions......Page 159
Catholic ethics and sexuality......Page 162
Abortion......Page 165
European membership and Irish law......Page 168
Pyrrhic victory......Page 173
Value change and encounters with the EU......Page 177
Conclusion......Page 182
8 The emergence of a European morality?......Page 184
Endurance of national norms......Page 186
Why change in the 1990s?......Page 188
Convergence and divergence......Page 194
European integration and cultural distinctiveness......Page 197
Bibliography......Page 200
Index......Page 220