When Church Teachings and Policy Commitments Collide: Perspectives on Catholics in the U.S. House of Representatives

This article investigates the influence of religious values on domestic social policy-making, with a particular focus on Catholics. We analyze roll call votes in the 109th Congress and find that Catholic identification is associated with support for Catholic Social Teaching, but both younger Catholics and Republican Catholics are found less supportive. In followup interviews with a small sample of Catholic Republicans, we find that they justify voting contrary to Church teaching by seeing its application to domestic social issues as less authoritative than Church moral teachings on issues like abortion

The Entrepreneurial State Goes to Europe

This article investigates state-level export programs in response to the emerging new economic and political regime of Europe 1992. Little related export promotion activity is found, even in states reputed to have the most active entrepreneurial policies. The authors conclude that states have few resources to invest in export promotion and are inappropriate jurisdictions around which to organize such policy, despite the much touted entrepreneurial state

"Social Democrats Choose Europe: Comparing the European Policies of the British Labour and French Socialist Parties"

A striking feature of the "1992" process has been the embrace of the Single Market by left-wing parties previousiy hostile to the European Community's integrationist initiatives. Comparing the cases of the British Labour and French Social 1st parties, the paper suggests a common strategic calculation arising from the defeat of the left- Keynesian responses to the crises of the 1970s. Faced with refusal of private capital, both domestically and internationally, to adjust market strategies to "national" priorities, social democrats, following the dictates of electoral advantage, retreated toward the center, a shift facilitated by a pro-European policy. Support for greater economic and manetary union has offered party leaderships, which have abandoned the left's traditional insistence on a positive link between social equity and economic efficiency, a modernizing image, while at the same time diminishing domestic political accountability for policy choices unpopular with their labor and public-sector constituencies

The Entrepreneurial State Goes to Europe: State Economic Policies and Europe 1992

This article investigates state-level export programs in response to the emerging new economic and political regime of Europe 1992. Little related export promotion activity is found, even in states reputed to have the most active entrepreneurial policies. The authors conclude that states have few resources to invest in export promotion and are inappropriate jurisdictions around which to organize such policy, despite the much touted entrepreneurial state