Between Two Absolutes

by Cook, Elizabeth Adell; Jelen, Ted G.; Wilcox, Clyde

• ISBN13: 9780813382876
• ISBN10: 0813382874
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-08-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Author Biography

Ted Jelen is professor of political science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He has published extensively in the areas of religion and politics, church-state relations, and the politics of abortion. He is currently the editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Clyde Wilcox is professor of government at Georgetown University. He has published a number of books on religion and politics in the U.S. and abroad, and on interest group politics, including Groups in American Elections: The New Face of Electioneering, Second Edition and The Values Campaign: The Christian Right in the 2004 Elections. He also writes on gender politics, campaign finance, and the politics of science fiction.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abortion and American Politics	p. 1
The Social Bases of Abortion Attitudes	p. 31
The Subjective Bases of Abortion Attitudes	p. 69
Religion and Abortion Attitudes	p. 93
Who is Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, and in Between?	p. 131
The Electoral Politics of Abortion	p. 161
From Rights to Policy: the Future of the Abortion Debate	p. 191
Appendix: Detailed Results of Multivariate Analyses	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 231
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