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Article: Abortion Rates in the United States: The Influence of Opinion and Policy.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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Ted G. Jelen, Benedictine University
Scholarly works which set the intellectual agenda for subsequent analyses are often termed "seminal." If I may be permitted to extend the reproductive metaphor, Wetstein's Abortion Rates in the United States might well be termed "conjugal." Although this will be an important book, rather than serve as the starting point for future research, its main contribution is to synthesize two diverse strands of research and to integrate them into a coherent whole.
In this brief volume, Wetstein combines and analyzes two distinct research literatures in the politics of abortion: analyses of public opinion, in which the dependent ...