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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... Presidents and Platforms Chapter Three Women's Rights in the House and Senate Chapter Four Explaining Party Issue Realignment Chapter Five Equilibrium Disruption and Issue Redefinition Chapter Six Shifting Coalitions and Changing Elites ...
... presidential ticket—was met. Moreover, by 1984 the parties had so diverged over women's rights that the women's movement's preeminent organization, the National Organization for Women (NOW), abandoned its traditional nonpartisanship and ...
... Presidents from both parties made occasional weak statements in support of women's rights, but their appeals to women as an electoral constituency largely took the form of symbolic actions, such as speeches and appointments. Support for ...
... presidents. Thus, the puzzle is why the parties have moved apart on women's rights since that time and why the resultant alignment is so different than what party positioning in the 1950s might have predicted. PREVIOUS EXPLANATIONS ...
... presidents (Costain 1991). Work examining other genderrelated phenomenon has often treated the present party alignment as natural or preordained. Costain and Costain (1987), for example, describe the changing strategies of the women's ...
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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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