Morality analysis
Reducing moral backlash to public policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9784445 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brent Mills (0000-0003-0956-8842, Founder, Values Added, Ontario Ottawa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 230-246 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Public Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4840 • E-ISSN: 1754-7121 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/capa.12522 |
| OpenAlex | W4379742513 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
Widely used policy development processes rarely systematically consider differing moral values, which can lead to overlooked risks, ineffective communications and suboptimal policy design. This article introduces morality analysis, a policy tool that draws on moral foundations theory to optimize policy and program design, build public support for policies and present key advice to decision‐makers. Morality analysis is used to examine the case of a controversial vaccination incentive program introduced by the Government of Alberta in late 2021 and identify policy options that would likely have prompted less public backlash. This article suggests that morality analysis should supplement the policy analysis toolkit
Backlash · Economics · Government (linguistics · Incentive · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Morality · Policy analysis · Political science · Public economics · Public policy · Sociology · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Public Administration
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The psychological impact of Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns
Moral reframing
Moral foundations vignettes
Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against Covid-19
Understanding Libertarian Morality
Moral Foundations Theory
Virtue Ethics
Moral Foundations Twitter Corpus
Voluntary Active Euthanasia
The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes
Virtue ethics as an alternative to deontological and consequential reasoning in the harm reduction debate
Measuring Moral Rhetoric in Text
Values and Virtue
Tracing the threads
Red, white, and blue enough to be green
How Words Do the Work of Politics
Drugs, Sex, Rock, and Roll
Are Debates about “Morality Policy” Really about Morality? Framing Opposition to Gay and Lesbian Rights
Measuring moral politics
Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations
Mapping the moral domain
Getting Liberals and Conservatives to Go Green
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |