From marriage equality, to gun control, to immigration reform and the threat of war, religion
plays a fascinating and crucial part in our nation's political process and in our culture at …

They have money, influence, power-and they turn out to vote." They" are groups like Focus
on the Family, Family Research Council, and Concerned Women for America (all parts of the …

Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a
greater ability to live their lives openly in both the US and Canada. However, while human …

What explains public opinion toward transgender people, rights, and candidates? Drawing
on original data from a national telephone survey of US adults, this study explains attitudes …

Same-sex marriage, a politically and culturally untenable idea only a quarter century ago,
has become one of the most controversial issues in American life. Social conservatives are …

Most public opinion attitudes in the United States are reasonably stable over time. Using
data from the General Social Survey and the American National Election Studies, I quantify …

In his second inaugural address in January 2013, President Barack Obama associated the
struggle for gay equality with that for racial equality by conjoining, alliteratively, Stonewall …

Throughout their relatively short history, lesbian and gay movements in the United States
have endured searing conflicts over whether to embrace assimilationist or liberationist …

Democratic theorists assume that government policy responds to public opinion. But public
opinion may be influenced by other political actors through the mass media instead …

The first edition of this book was published in 1994, as the future of monetary unification in
Europe was very much in doubt. With Economic and Monetary Union now in place, it is …