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Article: Morality Policy and Individual-Level Political Behavior: The Case of Legislative Voting on Lesbian and Gay Issues.
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- Policy Studies Journal
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- December 22, 1999
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Researchers using the morality politics framework have focused on aggregate-level analysis, largely ignoring the behavior of individuals within political institutions. My research fills this gap by examining legislative voting behavior on lesbian and gay issues in the U. S. House of Representatives. The theory of morality politics is used to extract a number of hypotheses concerning legislative voting behavior. The morality politics framework suggests that legislative voting on lesbian and gay issues will be driven by partisanship, ideology, religious beliefs, constituency opinion, and perhaps interest groups. The results of multiple regression analysis demonstrate that ...
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