The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and ChangePrinceton University Press, 24. apr. 2010 - 256 sider Here Christina Wolbrecht boldly demonstrates how the Republican and Democratic parties have helped transform, and have been transformed by, American public debate and policy on women's rights. She begins by showing the evolution of the positions of both parties on women's rights over the past five decades. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Republicans were slightly more favorable than Democrats, but by the early 1980s, the parties had polarized sharply, with Democrats supporting, and Republicans opposing, such policies as the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion rights. Wolbrecht not only traces the development of this shift in the parties' relative positions--focusing on party platforms, the words and actions of presidents and presidential candidates, and the behavior of the parties' delegations in Congress--but also seeks to explain the realignment. |
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... opposed to economic, political cleavages either ignore women's issues (Miller and Levitin 1984) or lump them together with family, cultural, or general social issues (Shafer and Claggett 1995; but see Leege and Wald n.d. for an ...
... opposition to the ERA on behalf of organized labor and the invalidation of protective legislation via the ... opposed the ERA historically, as they expected it to eliminate the special protections they had fought to obtain for ...
... opposition were eliminated. The role of labor unions and the declining relevance of protective legislation are ... opposed, women's rights from a very different perspective. Second, while social conservatives used their influence ...
... opposition. For Democrats, women's rights fit well with that party's tradition of favoring government intervention on ... opposed the interference into economic practices that many feminist policies were viewed as requiring. The result ...
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Of Presidents and Platforms | 23 |
Womens Rights in the House and Senate | 73 |
Explaining Party Issue Realignment | 108 |
Equilibrium Disruption and Issue Redefinition | 134 |
Shifting Coalitions and Changing Elites | 181 |
The Politics of Womens Rights | 226 |
Appendix | 239 |
References | 243 |
Index | 259 |
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