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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... Role Scale), 1972–1988. Party Polarization on the Equal Role Scale, Identifiers and Strong Partisans, 1972–1992. The Gender Gap in Party Identification, 1952–1992. 105 106 138 141 142 164 169 178 179 185 186 189 191 192 199 200 216 217 ...
... role in setting me on this course. Lee Epstein provided, and continues to provide, invaluable advice and input not only on the substance of my research, but also on all aspects of my academic career. I am most grateful. Bob Salisbury's ...
... roles. The Democratic party has placed itself at the other end of the women's rights spectrum, generally supporting public policies that assist in the expansion of social, political, and economic roles for women. In short, the two ...
... role of labor unions and the declining relevance of protective legislation are important factors in explaining the Democratic party's changing position on the ERA and women's rights in general. There is evidence, however, that the ...
... role in the functioning of American democracy (cf. Eldersveld 1981). In the words of V. O. Key, “political parties are the basic institutions for the translation of mass preferences into public policy” (1967, 432). Political parties ...
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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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