The Conspiracy of Silence
Context and Voting on Gay Marriage Ballot Measures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua J Dyck (0000-0001-5625-0744, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA), Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz (0000-0001-6440-1098, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 745-757 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912911411102 |
| OpenAlex | W1971942822 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 59 |
Gay marriage bans have received widespread support in the past decade in states across America. The authors evaluate the extent to which context mitigates or exacerbates support for gay rights. Their question is grounded in the debate over whether exposure to out-groups creates acceptance through contact or whether exposure induces hostility through threat. Using data from twelve marriage ban elections, the authors find conditional support for the threat hypothesis. While the presence of a gay population is unimportant to the majority of the population, evangelical Christians who live proximate to larger gay populations are more likely to support bans on gay marriage
Context (archaeology · Criminology · Geography · Hostility · Political science · Population · Silence · Sociology · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Congregational Political Activity and Same-Sex Marriage
Attitudes toward transgender rights
Persuasion and ballot initiatives
The Personal Politics of Same‐Sex Marriage
Reexamining Context and Same-Sex Marriage
Equal Rights vs. Special Rights
The Evolution of Attitudes on Same‐Sex Marriage in the United States, 1988–2014
To Know You is Not Necessarily to Love You
Does Transnational Experience Constrain Religiosity? Korean Evangelical Women's Discourse on LGBT Persons
Race and the decline of class in American politics
Southern politics in State and Nation
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Symbolic Politics
"Some of My Best Friends" Intergroup Contact, Concealable Stigma, and Heterosexuals' Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbians
Issue Evolution
Is Anyone Responsible?
A Theory of Framing and Opinion Formation in Competitive Elite Environments
Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, … But Make Sure They Have a Green Card
The Disproportionate Impact of Antigay Family Policies on Black and Latino Same-sex Couple Households
The Role of Heterosexual Identity Threat in Differential Support for Same-Sex `Civil Unions' versus `Marriages
Hitting below the Bible Belt
Intercity Rent Differentials in the U.S. Housing Market 2000
Prejudice And Minority Proportion
Ethnic Context and Immigration Policy Preferences Among Latinos and Anglos
Competing Social Movements and Local Political Culture
Nice to Know You? Testing Contact, Cultural, and Group Threat Theories of Anti‐Black and Anti‐Hispanic Stereotypes
Anglo Voting on Nativist Ballot Initiatives
The Negative Effects of Populism on Gay and Lesbian Rights
Accounting for Spatial Variation in Tolerance
Interpersonal contact and heterosexuals’ attitudes toward gay men
Anti-Immigrant Prejudice in Europe
Demographic Correlates of Border-State Desegregation
A Simple Theory of the Survey Response
The Contextual Effects of Race on White Voter Behavior
Religious “Threat” in Contemporary Presidential Elections
The Politics of Gay and Lesbian Rights
Why State Constitutions Differ in their Treatment of Same-Sex Marriage
Cracks in American Apartheid
Race/Ethnicity and Direct Democracy
On the Limits of Framing Effects
The Electoral Allure of Direct Democracy
The Religion Card
Reconciling Context and Contact Effects on Racial Attitudes
Value Words and Lizard Brains
Beyond the Running Tally
Understanding Interaction Models
The States and the Differing Impetus for Divergent Paths on Same‐Sex Marriage, 1990–2001
Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996
Intergroup Prejudice in Multiethnic Settings
Said and Unsaid
Intergroup Contact
Mimicking Political Debate with Survey Questions
How White Attitudes Vary with the Racial Composition of Local Populations
Racial Threat and Partisan Identification
Gay Rights in the States
Media Framing of a Civil Liberties Conflict and Its Effect on Tolerance
Self-Interest vs. Symbolic Politics in Policy Attitudes and Presidential Voting
Resurgent Mass Partisanship
The Ties That Bind and Those That Don't
Ballot Manipulation and the 'Menace of Negro Domination
Why Strict Churches Are Strong
The relationship between outgroup size and anti-outgroup attitudes
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |