Religion, Partisanship, and Attitudes Toward Science Policy

Partisanship and Local Climate Policy

This article examines the relationship between partisanship and cities’ approaches to climate policy. Do partisan patterns at the local level match patterns at the national level? Whose partisanship matters: that of elected officials, citizens, or other actors? Previous research indicates that constraints created by the federal system dampen the effects of partisanship on many local policies. G...

“And Who Is My Neighbor?” Religion and Immigration Policy Attitudes

This study explores immigration reform as a possible new “moral” issue upon which American religious elites and organizations take public positions. It is argued that religion is a key independent variable necessary for understanding the determinants of public attitudes regarding immigration policy. Theoretical expectations are formed from the ethnoreligious, religious restructuralism, and mino...

Affective Language and Attitudes Toward Public Policy

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Religion and Latino Partisanship in the United States

Toward a Science of Policy

Kartik B. Ariyur, Purdue University [email protected] Introduction From a biological perspective, all human action is aimed at self-preservation. While there may be differences in the proximate goals of individuals, all their actions (whether of mice or men) can be explained by the pursuit of predictability in the conditions of their existence. The proximate goals appear to be different simply...