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All Politics is Not Local: National Forces in State Abortion Initiatives

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  • Jongho Roh
  • Donald P. Haider‐Markel

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Objective. Although research suggests that national forces can play a role in local and state elections, most of this work has only recently begun to examine the potential role of national forces in state or local ballot initiative or referenda elections. Methods. Our research addresses this gap in the literature by exploring the influence of national forces, such as the timing of elections, Supreme Court rulings, the activities of interest groups, and public opinion, on state direct legislation elections. We incorporate national forces into the morality politics framework and derive specific hypotheses. We then test these hypotheses by conducting a multivariate analysis of county‐level voting patterns across 16 abortion‐related direct legislation elections. Results. Our results confirm most of the hypotheses derived from the morality politics framework, including those concerning the role of national forces. Conclusions. Voting patterns on abortion tend to be influenced by the presence of presidential elections, Supreme Court rulings, interest‐group activity, public opinion, partisanship, college education, and conservative religious forces. We discuss the implications of our findings for research on elections, abortion policy, and morality politics.

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  • Jongho Roh & Donald P. Haider‐Markel, 2003. "All Politics is Not Local: National Forces in State Abortion Initiatives," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 84(1), pages 15-31, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:socsci:v:84:y:2003:i:1:p:15-31
    DOI: 10.1111/1540-6237.t01-1-8401002
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    1. Aguiar-Conraria, Luís & Magalhães, Pedro C., 2010. "How quorum rules distort referendum outcomes: Evidence from a pivotal voter model," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 26(4), pages 541-557, December.
    2. Timothy Callaghan & Lawrence R. Jacobs, 2014. "Process Learning and the Implementation of Medicaid Reform," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Oxford University Press, vol. 44(4), pages 541-563.

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