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Impacts of faith-based decision making on the individual-level legislative process : emerging research and opportunities / Karla Drenner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drenner, Karla, author.
- Series:
- Advances in public policy and administration (APPA) book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and law.
- Legislation--United States.
- Legislation.
- Christianity--Influence.
- Christianity.
- United States--Church history.
- United States.
- Church history.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 186 pages ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, [2017]
- Summary:
- "This book explores how faith influences individual-level legislative decision making; how faith influences an individual legislator's political judgment in the early-stage legislative decision making regarding the bills that are sponsored; how the heightened lawmaking efforts by legislators that are more inclined toward religious claims due to their opposition to homosexuality, and other topics"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction to faith in state legislatures
- Emergence of faith and politics at the state level
- The use of faith in legislative decision-making: bill sponsorship
- The holy wars of marriage
- Religious liberty
- Defenders of faith.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781522523888
- 152252388X
- OCLC:
- 975363933
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