Abortion politics in Congress : strategic incrementalism and policy change

The Resource Abortion politics in Congress : strategic incrementalism and policy change
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Abortion politics in Congress : strategic incrementalism and policy change
Title remainder
strategic incrementalism and policy change
Statement of responsibility
Scott H. Ainsworth, Thad E. Hall
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Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors (such as public opinion) and internal factors (such as the ideological composition of committees and party systems) shape the development of abortion policy. Driven by both theoretical and empirical concerns, the authors present a simple, formal model of strategic incrementalism, illustrating that legislators often have incentives to alter policy incrementally. They then examine the sponsorship of abortion-related proposals as well as their committee referral and find that a wide range of Democratic and Republican legislators repeatedly offer abortion-related proposals designed to alter abortion policy incrementally. This book reveals that abortion debates have permeated a wide range of issues and that a wide range of legislators and a large number of committees address abortion
Cataloging source
YDXCP
Dewey number
362.19/88800973
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
KF9315
LC item number
.A945 2011eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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