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A Matter of Context: Christian Right Influence in U.S. State Republican Politics
In: State politics & policy quarterly: the official journal of the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 10, Heft 3
ISSN: 1532-4400
The Christian Right is a powerful force in contemporary state Republican party politics. In this article, I create a new comprehensive measure of that influence and offer a theoretical framework through which to understand how influence varies across the states. Drawing from the insights of social movement theory, the results of the data analysis demonstrate the importance of the movement's internal resources and the state political context in which the Christian Right seeks to influence state Republican party politics. Adapted from the source document.