The Congressional Debate on Partial-Birth Abortion
Constitutional Gravitas and Moral Passion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6227746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (0000-0002-7820-6231, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-410 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007123408000203 |
| OpenAlex | W2043438295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 12 |
Automated content analysis is employed to measure the dimensionality of Senate debates on the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and compare these results with the final vote. The underlying verbal conflict leading up to the final roll-call vote contains two important dimensions: (1) an emotive battle over the abortion procedure itself, and (2) the battle over the constitutionality of the bill. Surprisingly, senators appear not to have voted along the first dimension of the verbal conflict, but rather along the second dimension. The analysis of the deliberations of senators not only enables us to understand the complexity of the arguments that is not captured in the vote, but it also uncovers (and measures empirically) the strategies employed by legislators to shape the relevant lines of conflict, and ultimately, the final content of the bill
Abortion · Battle · Constitution · Constitutionality · Dimension (graph theory · Emotive · Political science · Sociology · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Mathematics
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| Citations per year | 1.39 |
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| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |