TY - BOOK ID - 984223 TI - Markets and moral regulation : cultural change in the European Union PY - 2001 SN - 0521003954 052180289X 0511173733 0511041543 0511152949 0511327722 0511492006 1280433248 0511047908 1107123186 9780511041549 9780521802895 9780521003957 9780511492006 9780511047909 9780511152948 9781107123182 9781280433245 9780511173738 9780511327728 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social ethics KW - Social policy KW - International economic relations KW - European Union KW - Europe - Economic integration. KW - Markets. KW - Markets KW - Commerce KW - Business & Economics KW - Marketing & Sales KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - European Union countries KW - Europe KW - Social policy. KW - Economic integration. KW - #SBIB:316.8H40 KW - #SBIB:35H437 KW - #SBIB:022.IOS KW - Sociaal beleid: social policy, sociale zekerheid, verzorgingsstaat KW - Beleidssectoren: sociale zekerheid KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Public markets KW - Fairs KW - Market towns UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:984223 AB - 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. ER -