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Moral Issues : How Public Opinion on Abortion and Gay Rights Affects American Religion and Politics.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goren, Paul.
- Series:
- Chicago Studies in American Politics Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abortion--United States--Public opinion.
- Abortion.
- Culture conflict--Political aspects--United States.
- Culture conflict.
- Gay rights--United States--Public opinion.
- Gay rights.
- Mass media and public opinion--United States.
- Mass media and public opinion.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- Religion and politics--United States.
- Religion and politics.
- Values--Political aspects--United States.
- Values.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- A new perspective on how beliefs about abortion and gay rights reshaped American politics. Many believe that religious and partisan identities undergird American public opinion. However, when it comes to abortion and gay rights, the reverse may be closer to the truth. Drawing on wide-ranging evidence, Paul Goren and Christopher Chapp show that views on abortion and gay rights are just as durable and politically impactful—and often more so—than political and religious identities. Goren and Chapp locate the lasting strength of stances on abortion and gay rights in the automatic, visceral emotions that the media has primed since the late 1980s. Moral Issues examines how attitudes toward these moralized issues affect, and can sometimes even disrupt, religious and partisan identities. Indeed, over the last thirty years, these attitudes have accelerated the rise of the religious “nones,” who have no religious affiliation, and promoted moral sorting into the Democratic and Republican parties.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- CHAPTER ONE Moral Hunches
- CHAPTER TWO The Theory of Moral Power
- CHAPTER THREE Moral Messaging
- CHAPTER FOUR Moral Emotions and Attitude Stability
- CHAPTER FIVE Stand Patters, Switchers, and Collective Opinion
- CHAPTER SIX Moral Issues and Religious Disaffiliation
- CHAPTER SEVEN Moral Issues and Party Change
- CHAPTER EIGHT Abortion, Gay Rights, and American Politics
- Acknowledgments
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780226836669
- 0226836665
- OCLC:
- 1478693421
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