Past research has shown that elected officials are generally responsive to the public's
attitudes on policy, particularly in domains such as morality policy. But will this …

The number and variety of state policies regulating abortion each year is increasing.
Opponents of abortion adopted a strategy of “legal but inaccessible” that has resulted in the …

Objective. Although research suggests that national forces can play a role in local and state
elections, most of this work has only recently begun to examine the potential role of national …

Whether public opinion should be expected to play a role in the shaping of abortion
legislation in the states is a debatable question. Representation is a difficult task, especially …

A central feature of democratic theory is substantial public control over the shape of public
policies. Recent research on public opinion bolsters the connection between public …

Few studies make a direct connection between public opinion, public policies, and the
behavior of the mass public. This book demonstrates for the first time that such a connection …

Morality policy studies are generally constructed around the theoretical perspective of
democratic responsiveness, whereby factors such as religious affiliation of citizens, public …

" The Supreme Court," according to the legendary Mr. Dooley," follows the election
returns."'In 1973, the Court's two landmark decisions, Roe v. Wade2 and Doe v. Bolton, 3 …

Scholars of “morality policies” have often assumed a signature characteristic of such policies
is that advocates will frame them as clashes between fundamental moral and religious …

I conduct a quantitative evaluation of the “countermajoritarian difficulty” by examining the
relationship between public opinion, state policy, and judicial review in constitutional …