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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... Women's Rights Bills Percentage of Democrats and Republicans Cosponsoring Any Pro–Women's Rights Bills, House and Senate ... Agenda, Party Platforms, 1952–1992 Percentage of Southern and Non-Southern Members Cosponsoring Any Pro–Women's ...
... agenda-setting literature that offers relevant insights into the role of issue definition and agenda setting in shaping political alignments (cf. Baumgartner and Jones 1993; Kingdon 1984; Cobb and Elder 1983). Moreover, I am concerned ...
... rights issues. In 1980, the Republican party removed the ERA from its ... women's rights (Costain 1992). Party actions since that time have only reinforced and ... agenda was quite small and attracted little public attention, but on that ...
... women's movement (cf. Costain 1992; Davis 1991; Freeman 1975), the rise and fall of the ERA (cf. Mathews and De Hart 1990 ... agenda, especially civil rights for racial minorities, was an important ... WOMEN'S RIGHTS, AMERICAN PARTIES.
... women's rights in general. There is evidence, however, that the Democratic party was moving toward what was then the GOP position in ... agenda, social conservatives have evaluated, and as a result opposed ... WOMEN'S RIGHTS, AMERICAN 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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