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"This encyclopedia reviews and interprets a broad array of social science and humanities research on LGBT people, politics, and public policy around the world. The articles are organized around six major themes of the study of identity politics, with a focus on movement politics, public attitudes, political institutions, elections, and the broader context of political theory. Through peer-reviewed contributions by leading researchers, the encyclopedia offers the most comprehensive view of research on LGBT politics and policy to date"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Abortion -- Alcohol Restrictions -- Animal Rights and Welfare -- Border Security and Immigration -- Civil Rights and Free Speech -- Climate Change -- Cloning -- Death Penalty -- Disability -- Discrimination in K-12 Education -- Driving Under the Influence -- Drones and Unmanned (Smart) Weapons Systems -- Drug Use and Policy -- Economic Inequality -- Education -- Energy Production -- Environmental Protection and Conservation -- Eugenics -- Evolution and Creationism -- Extraordinary Rendition -- Farming-Livestock -- Gambling -- Genetic Engineering -- Homelessness -- Homosexuality -- Illegal/Undocumented Immigration -- Minimum Wage -- Obesity -- Organ Donation -- Police Use of Force -- Pornography -- Poverty and Social Welfare -- Prayer and Religious Observance -- Religious Freedom -- Reproductive Services and Infertility -- Right to Die/Physician-assisted Suicide -- Same-Sex Marriage -- Second Amendment (Right to Bear Arms) -- Sex Education in Public Schools -- Sin Taxes -- Surveillance -- Terrorism and Counterterrorism -- Torture and Extreme Interrogation Techniques -- Transgender Issues -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.

The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government covers the main areas of study in subnational politics by exploring the central contributions to the comparative study of institutions, behaviour, and policy in the American context.

This volume presents an analysis of the political representation of gay and lesbian elected candidates and elected officials within government institutions, especially at the state level. It presents a number of findings about the strategies of LGBT candidates for state legislative office, the conditions under which they run and get elected, and most importantly, how electing LGBT legislators helps efforts to shape policies favored by the LGBT rights movement

Review of Cultures at War: Moral Conflicts in Western Democracies. By T. Alexander Smith and Raymond Tatalovich. (Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2003. Pp. 302. $19.95)

Population ecology theory on interest group populations is examined to determine the implications for group membership levels in the states. Using the assumptions of the competitive exclusion principle, it is hypothesized that relatively new interest groups should not directly compete for space, but should instead have a positive influence on each other's membership levels. A group's membership level should also be a function of space, energy, and political mobilization factors. Multiple regression analysis is applied to a fifty-state data set using the membership levels of five gay and lesbian interest groups as dependent variables. The hypotheses are confirmed—interest groups avoid direct competition for space by adapting into different issue niches. The results of these findings for a population ecology theory of interest groups are discussed along with directions for future research.

Review of On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics. By David Morton Rayside. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 384p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Review of Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States. By Carolyn E. Cocca. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. 228p. $59.50 cloth, $19.95 paper.