Despite being a defining issue in the culture war, the political psychology of abortion
attitudes remains poorly understood. We address this oversight by reviewing existing …

▪ Abstract The sociology of religion is experiencing a period of substantial organizational
and intellectual growth. Recent theoretical and empirical papers on the sociology of religion …

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 …

The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about
intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal …

What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new
perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval …

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 …

Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course presents a current and
comprehensive examination of human behavior across time using a multidimensional …

Do policies that regulate morality and/or evoke strong moral reactions have significantly
different patterns of adoption in the states than those policies whose impacts are primarily …

The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics documents a recent, fundamental change
in American politics with the waning of Christian America. Rather than conservatives …

This article examines the influence of a new religious cleavage defined by the orthodoxy of
religious beliefs, affiliations, and practices on American political behavior. With data pooled …