Political and Socioeconomic Indicators of State Restrictiveness Toward Abortion

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6330689
AutoresRuth Ann Strickland (Appalachian State University), Marcia Lynn Whicker (Rütgers (Germany))
Ano1992
Volume20
Fascículo4
Páginas598-617
Data de publicação1992-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolicy Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1541-0072.1992.tb00185.x
PMID11660186
OpenAlexW2158527024
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas34

We compare the relative impacts of political and socioeconomic factors on state restrictiveness toward abortion during the pre‐Roe, pre‐Webster and post‐Webster time frames. This analysis tests the value of cycle theory, where shifting epochs dominated by liberalism and conservatism enhance the role of political variables in shaping policy formation. It also tests the explanatory value of public opinion theory which holds that bimodal issues which cut across party lines accentuate the role of socioeconomic variables in shaping issue evolution. The results of this analysis lend support to cycle theory and public opinion theory, although public opinion theory receives stronger support. When socioeconomic independent variables are regressed against our dichotomous measures of state restrictiveness toward abortion, they explain more variance than political independent variables. Political variables were more important in the conservative era (1989) than in the liberal era (1972

Abortion · Conservatism · Economics · Political science · Politics · Population · Positive economics · Public opinion · Restrictiveness · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · State (computer science · Statistics · Variables · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Mathematics · Religion and Society Interactions