Politics and Policies in the Debate on Euthanasia〈1st ed. 2023〉 : Morality Issues in Portugal

著者名：Almeida, Inês Santos/Mota, Luís F.

Palgrave Macmillan（2024/01/04発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9783031445873
• eISBN：9783031445880

Description

This book analyses the political and public debates about euthanasia in Portugal. Utilising petitions submitted to Parliament, legislative bills, parliamentary debates, opinion articles in newspapers, and documents published by the Catholic Church, it examines this sensitive issue through the theoretical lens of morality politics. It does so by studying the process of political dispute between advocacy coalitions formed by political parties and societal actors. This is the first book to comprehensively analyse a morality issue in Portugal, a predominantly Catholic country that has taken an innovative and liberal stance on many morality issues over the last two decades. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, political science, public policy and bioethics, as well as policymakers and other interest groups.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1- Introduction.- Chapter 2- Policy formulation, Morality issues and Euthanasia: A Literature Review.- Chapter 3- The parliamentary debate on euthanasia in Portugal: a tale in six rounds. -Chapter 4-. Ayes or Nos: Positions and used arguments by Political Parties at the Parliamentary debates. -Chapter 5- . The (un)used consultation processes: positions and arguments from Organizational Experts.- Chapter 6.-Does my voice also count? Positions and arguments during by Interest Groups in the parliamentary debate.- Chapter 7- The extra-parliamentary public debate on Euthanasia: positions expressed by the hierarchy of the Portuguese Catholic church and in the written media.- Chapter 8- Advocacy Coalitions in the debate on euthanasia.- Chapter 9- Conclusions