Stephan Heichel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4377581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephan Heichel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephan |
| FAMILY NAME | Heichel |
| SIGNATURE | HEICHEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 262 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Religious tides
Morality policies evince a much closer relationship to religious doctrines than is the case in other policy areas and hence constitute a most likely case for the observation of religious effects on policymaking and regulatory change. Yet we still lack generally accepted answers to the questions of whether and how religion matters to morality policy. In this paper, we present a theoretical argument that helps to overcome the seemingly contradictor…
Partisan effects in morality policy making
Current comparative policy research gives no clear answer to the question of whether partisan politics in general or the partisan composition of governments in particular matter for different morality policy outputs across countries and over time. This article addresses this desideratum by employing a new encompassing dataset that captures the regulatory permissiveness in six morality policies that are homosexuality, same‐sex partnership, prostit…
Women Matter
Abortion is undeniably a gender issue—even if not an exclusive one (e.g., Mazur 2002, 137–153; Warren 2000, 201–223. Due to a woman's physical reproductive capacities and, even more so, the patriarchal allocation of care work, members of the female sex bear by far the larger share of all burdens that come with pregnancy and especially unwanted pregnancy—be they physical, emotional, economic, life-course related, or other (England 2001; Tribe 1992…
Moralpolitik in Deutschland
Moralpolitik in Deutschland
From ‘morality’ policy to ‘normal’ policy
Drug consumption and gambling are regarded as morality policies, especially in the American literature. Both are perceived as sinful and treated accordingly. This highly generalized assessment is rarely analysed systematically in a non-American context. Therefore, we investigate whether these policies are indeed framed morally and if this framing is stable over time in two European countries. Next, we analyse whether shifts in morality framing ha…
Public policy meets morality
This contribution examines morality policies from the perspective of the comparative public policy literature. We analyse which concepts, theories and explanatory factors are useful given the peculiarities of this policy field. We answer the question to what extent morality policies are different by analysing these central aspects from a policy change perspective. In view of the identified problems in morality policy research, we suggest an alter…
Do parties matter in internationalised policy areas? The impact of political parties on environmental policy outputs in 18 OECD countries, 1970–2000
This article analyses the extent to which national policies in the highly internationalised environmental sector are influenced by the policy preferences of political parties. The focus is on policy outputs rather than environmental performance as the central indicator of policy change. Based on a discussion of the relevant theoretical literature competing hypotheses are presented. For an empirical test, a dataset is used that includes informatio…
Balancing competitiveness and conditionality
This article scrutinizes the effects of economic competition on environmental standard levels in low-regulating states that intensify their economic interlinkage with high-regulating countries. In doing so, it pursues two objectives. First, we provide a detailed empirical account of the impact of economic integration on the development of environmental standards in Hungary and Mexico. Second, we offer a theoretical argument in order to explain wh…
Unterschiedliche Pfade, ein Ziel? — Spezifikationen im Forschungsdesign und Vergleichbarkeit der Ergebnisse bei der Suche nach der Konvergenz nationalstaatlicher Politiken
Die gegenwärtige politikwissenschaftliche Konvergenzforschung beschäftigt sich mit dem Wandel, der Stabilität und der Annäherung nationaler Politiken unter dem Vorzeichen fortschreitender ökonomischer und politischer Globalisierung. Nationalstaatliche Regulierungen nähern sich beispielsweise auf dem kleinsten gemeinsamen Nenner einander an oder überbieten sich gegenseitig in einem Regulierungswettbewerb nach oben; sie gleichen sich in verschieden…
Is there convergence in convergence research? an overview of empirical studies on policy convergence
In this review, we portray findings and conceptualizations of selected empirical studies on policy convergence and related concepts. The article reveals that there is no homogenous picture of policy convergence: Although frequently observed, empirical studies often disagree as to its extent. The representation of policy fields, geographical regions and periods analysed differ, which makes an overall assessment of policy convergence impossible. Th…
Is there convergence in convergence research? an overview of empirical studies on policy convergence
In this review, we portray findings and conceptualizations of selected empirical studies on policy convergence and related concepts. The article reveals that there is no homogenous picture of policy convergence: Although frequently observed, empirical studies often disagree as to its extent. The representation of policy fields, geographical regions and periods analysed differ, which makes an overall assessment of policy convergence impossible. Th…
Do parties matter in internationalised policy areas? The impact of political parties on environmental policy outputs in 18 OECD countries, 1970–2000
This article analyses the extent to which national policies in the highly internationalised environmental sector are influenced by the policy preferences of political parties. The focus is on policy outputs rather than environmental performance as the central indicator of policy change. Based on a discussion of the relevant theoretical literature competing hypotheses are presented. For an empirical test, a dataset is used that includes informatio…
Public policy meets morality
This contribution examines morality policies from the perspective of the comparative public policy literature. We analyse which concepts, theories and explanatory factors are useful given the peculiarities of this policy field. We answer the question to what extent morality policies are different by analysing these central aspects from a policy change perspective. In view of the identified problems in morality policy research, we suggest an alter…
From ‘morality’ policy to ‘normal’ policy
Drug consumption and gambling are regarded as morality policies, especially in the American literature. Both are perceived as sinful and treated accordingly. This highly generalized assessment is rarely analysed systematically in a non-American context. Therefore, we investigate whether these policies are indeed framed morally and if this framing is stable over time in two European countries. Next, we analyse whether shifts in morality framing ha…
Partisan effects in morality policy making
Current comparative policy research gives no clear answer to the question of whether partisan politics in general or the partisan composition of governments in particular matter for different morality policy outputs across countries and over time. This article addresses this desideratum by employing a new encompassing dataset that captures the regulatory permissiveness in six morality policies that are homosexuality, same‐sex partnership, prostit…
Balancing competitiveness and conditionality
This article scrutinizes the effects of economic competition on environmental standard levels in low-regulating states that intensify their economic interlinkage with high-regulating countries. In doing so, it pursues two objectives. First, we provide a detailed empirical account of the impact of economic integration on the development of environmental standards in Hungary and Mexico. Second, we offer a theoretical argument in order to explain wh…
Religious tides
Morality policies evince a much closer relationship to religious doctrines than is the case in other policy areas and hence constitute a most likely case for the observation of religious effects on policymaking and regulatory change. Yet we still lack generally accepted answers to the questions of whether and how religion matters to morality policy. In this paper, we present a theoretical argument that helps to overcome the seemingly contradictor…
Women Matter
Abortion is undeniably a gender issue—even if not an exclusive one (e.g., Mazur 2002, 137–153; Warren 2000, 201–223. Due to a woman's physical reproductive capacities and, even more so, the patriarchal allocation of care work, members of the female sex bear by far the larger share of all burdens that come with pregnancy and especially unwanted pregnancy—be they physical, emotional, economic, life-course related, or other (England 2001; Tribe 1992…
Is there convergence in convergence research? an overview of empirical studies on policy convergence
In this review, we portray findings and conceptualizations of selected empirical studies on policy convergence and related concepts. The article reveals that there is no homogenous picture of policy convergence: Although frequently observed, empirical studies often disagree as to its extent. The representation of policy fields, geographical regions and periods analysed differ, which makes an overall assessment of policy convergence impossible. Th…
Unterschiedliche Pfade, ein Ziel? — Spezifikationen im Forschungsdesign und Vergleichbarkeit der Ergebnisse bei der Suche nach der Konvergenz nationalstaatlicher Politiken
Die gegenwärtige politikwissenschaftliche Konvergenzforschung beschäftigt sich mit dem Wandel, der Stabilität und der Annäherung nationaler Politiken unter dem Vorzeichen fortschreitender ökonomischer und politischer Globalisierung. Nationalstaatliche Regulierungen nähern sich beispielsweise auf dem kleinsten gemeinsamen Nenner einander an oder überbieten sich gegenseitig in einem Regulierungswettbewerb nach oben; sie gleichen sich in verschieden…
Balancing competitiveness and conditionality
This article scrutinizes the effects of economic competition on environmental standard levels in low-regulating states that intensify their economic interlinkage with high-regulating countries. In doing so, it pursues two objectives. First, we provide a detailed empirical account of the impact of economic integration on the development of environmental standards in Hungary and Mexico. Second, we offer a theoretical argument in order to explain wh…
Do parties matter in internationalised policy areas? The impact of political parties on environmental policy outputs in 18 OECD countries, 1970–2000
This article analyses the extent to which national policies in the highly internationalised environmental sector are influenced by the policy preferences of political parties. The focus is on policy outputs rather than environmental performance as the central indicator of policy change. Based on a discussion of the relevant theoretical literature competing hypotheses are presented. For an empirical test, a dataset is used that includes informatio…
From ‘morality’ policy to ‘normal’ policy
Drug consumption and gambling are regarded as morality policies, especially in the American literature. Both are perceived as sinful and treated accordingly. This highly generalized assessment is rarely analysed systematically in a non-American context. Therefore, we investigate whether these policies are indeed framed morally and if this framing is stable over time in two European countries. Next, we analyse whether shifts in morality framing ha…
Public policy meets morality
This contribution examines morality policies from the perspective of the comparative public policy literature. We analyse which concepts, theories and explanatory factors are useful given the peculiarities of this policy field. We answer the question to what extent morality policies are different by analysing these central aspects from a policy change perspective. In view of the identified problems in morality policy research, we suggest an alter…
Moralpolitik in Deutschland
Moralpolitik in Deutschland
Women Matter
Abortion is undeniably a gender issue—even if not an exclusive one (e.g., Mazur 2002, 137–153; Warren 2000, 201–223. Due to a woman's physical reproductive capacities and, even more so, the patriarchal allocation of care work, members of the female sex bear by far the larger share of all burdens that come with pregnancy and especially unwanted pregnancy—be they physical, emotional, economic, life-course related, or other (England 2001; Tribe 1992…
Religious tides
Morality policies evince a much closer relationship to religious doctrines than is the case in other policy areas and hence constitute a most likely case for the observation of religious effects on policymaking and regulatory change. Yet we still lack generally accepted answers to the questions of whether and how religion matters to morality policy. In this paper, we present a theoretical argument that helps to overcome the seemingly contradictor…
Partisan effects in morality policy making
Current comparative policy research gives no clear answer to the question of whether partisan politics in general or the partisan composition of governments in particular matter for different morality policy outputs across countries and over time. This article addresses this desideratum by employing a new encompassing dataset that captures the regulatory permissiveness in six morality policies that are homosexuality, same‐sex partnership, prostit…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Positive economics (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Morality (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works)