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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. Buckeye Battleground -- 2. Region and the Vote: The Five Ohios -- 3. The Political Impact of Demography -- 4. Attitudes and Political Choice -- 5. Campaigns and Voting in the Battleground -- 6. A Look to the Future of the Buckeye Battleground -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A heated scholarly debate rages over the 'culture wars thesis' in American politics. Drawing on the literature on mass opinion constraint & its sources, we propose a resolution to this debate: the culture wars influence mass political behavior in special religious, policy & political contexts where logical, psychological, social & electoral sources of opinion constraint are in effect. Using data pooled from the 1992, 1996 & 2000 American National Election Studies, we find strong support for our argument. We conclude that the cultural wars are waged by limited religious troops on narrow policy fronts under special political leadership, & a broader cultural conflagration is largely a rumor.

A heated scholarly debate rages over the 'culture wars thesis' in American politics. Drawing on the literature on mass opinion constraint and its sources, we propose a resolution to this debate: the culture wars influence mass political behaviour in special religious, policy and political contexts where logical, psychological, social and electoral sources of opinion constraint are in effect. Using data pooled from the 1992, 1996 and 2000 American National Election Studies, we find strong support for our argument. We conclude that the cultural wars are waged by limited religious troops on narrow policy fronts under special political leadership, and a broader cultural conflagration is largely a rumour.

There is no shortage of works on political parties and their relationship to governing institutions and political behavior. But unlike the study of legislatures, the courts, executives, or voters, party analysis has proceeded in a segregated fashion. Indeed, few integrative models have been advanced linking what parties are, what they do, and why they matter both normatively and empirically. In this paper we argue that four conceptual battlegrounds best summarize these works, and that within each there are common threads. Party scholarship has really been fought on three terrains: party organization and activities, party values and culture, and the party context. Before definitive answers can be reached and integrative models developed, scholars must first ask the same questions, and in the same language.