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date: 01 March 2021

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This article discusses morality policies, starting with its history and characteristics. The next section studies research that is related to specific public policies that fall within the morality politics classification. It then evaluates the relative fit of such policies within the morality politics rubric and addresses extra public policy issues that have religious dimensions.

Keywords: morality policies, history, characteristics, public policy, morality politics rubric, religious dimensions

Douglas L. Koopman

Douglas L. Koopman (Ph.D., Catholic University of America) is Professor of Political Science at Calvin College. He is the author or coauthor of three books—Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives (2004), Serving the Claims of Justice: The Thoughts of Paul B. Henry (2001), and Hostile Takeover: The House Republican Party, 1980–1995 (1996)—and has written extensively on Congress, social policy, and religious faith and American politics.

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