Moral Issues

How Public Opinion on Abortion and Gay Rights Affects American Religion and Politics

AvPaul Goren,Christopher Chapp

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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A new perspective on how beliefs about abortion and gay rights reshaped American politics.Many believe that religious and partisan identities undergird American public opinion. However, when it comes to abortion and gay rights, the reverse may be closer to the truth. Drawing on wide-ranging evidence, Paul Goren and Christopher Chapp show that views on abortion and gay rights are just as durable and politically impactful—and often more so—than political and religious identities. Goren and Chapp locate the lasting strength of stances on abortion and gay rights in the automatic, visceral emotions that the media has primed since the late 1980s. Moral Issues examines how attitudes toward these moralized issues affect, and can sometimes even disrupt, religious and partisan identities. Indeed, over the last thirty years, these attitudes have accelerated the rise of the religious “nones,” who have no religious affiliation, and promoted moral sorting into the Democratic and Republican parties.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:313 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Chicago Studies in American Politics
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226836676

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Paul Goren is professor of political science and the director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of On Voter Competence. Christopher Chapp is professor of political science and the Morrison Family Director of the Institute for Freedom and Community at St. Olaf College. He is the author of Religious Rhetoric and American Politics.

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"Challenging the conventional wisdom that partisan attachment adopted early in life determines choice for most voters, the authors find that partisan attachment may be more fluid than earlier research suggests…this important work forces a deeper reckoning with the drivers of American electoral politics. The arguments in Moral Issues must be considered in any serious evaluation. Academics and political operatives will benefit from a careful reading of this important book."

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List of FiguresList of TablesChapter 1. Moral HunchesChapter 2. The Theory of Moral PowerChapter 3. Moral MessagingChapter 4. Moral Emotions and Attitude StabilityChapter 5. Stand Patters, Switchers, and Collective OpinionChapter 6. Moral Issues and Religious DisaffiliationChapter 7. Moral Issues and Party ChangeChapter 8. Abortion, Gay Rights, and American PoliticsAcknowledgmentsAppendixesNotesBibliographyIndex