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Abortion politics in Congress : strategic incrementalism and policy change /
This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors (such as public opinion) and internal factors (such as the ideological composition of committees and party systems) shape the development of abort...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors (such as public opinion) and internal factors (such as the ideological composition of committees and party systems) shape the development of abortion policy. Driven by both theoretical and empirical concerns, the authors present a simple, formal model of strategic incrementalism, illustrating that legislators often have incentives to alter policy incrementally. They then examine the sponsorship of abortion-related proposals as well as their committee referral and find that a wide range of Democratic and Republican legislators repeatedly offer abortion-related proposals designed to alter abortion policy incrementally. This book reveals that abortion debates have permeated a wide range of issues and that a wide range of legislators and a large number of committees address abortion. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511928390 0511928394 9780511930911 0511930917 9780511933615 0511933614 9780511973802 0511973802 9780511924538 0511924534 9780511853432 0511853432 1107215803 9781107215801 1282930869 9781282930865 9786612930867 6612930861 0511932251 9780511932250 0511925883 9780511925887 |