Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights: Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash by Bishin, Benjamin George
Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights: Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash by Bishin, Benjamin George

Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights: Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash

Media and scholastic accounts describe a strong public opinion backlash--a sharply negative and enduring opinion change--against attempts...
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Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights: Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash by Bishin, Benjamin George

Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights: Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash

$131.93
Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights: Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash by Bishin, Benjamin George

Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights: Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash

$131.93
Author: Benjamin George Bishin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Media and scholastic accounts describe a strong public opinion backlash--a sharply negative and enduring opinion change--against attempts to advance gay rights. Academic research, however, increasingly questions backlash as an explanation for opposition to LGBT rights. Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights argues that what appears to be public opinion backlash against gay rights is more consistent with elite-led mobilization--a strategy used by anti-gay elites, primarily white evangelicals, seeking to prevent the full incorporation of LGBT Americans in the polity in order to achieve political objectives and increase political power. This book defines and tests the theory of Mass Opinion Backlash and develops and tests the theory of Elite-Led Mobilization by employing a series of online and natural experiments, surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Obergefell v. Hodges and United States v. Windsor, and President Obama's position change on gay marriage. To evaluate these theories, the authors employ extensive survey, voting behavior, and campaign finance data, and examine the history of the LGBT movement and its opposition by religious conservatives, from the Lavender Scare to the campaign against Trans Rights in the defeat of Houston's 2015 HERO ordinance. Their evidence shows that opposition to LGBT rights is a top-down process incited by anti-gay elites rather than a bottom-up reaction described by public opinion backlash.



Author: Benjamin George Bishin, Thomas Joseph Hayes, Matthew Benjamin Incantalupo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780472038640

About the Author
Benjamin George Bishin is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside

Thomas J. Hayes is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut

Matthew B. Incantalupo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeshiva University

Charles Anthony Smith is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of California, Irvine


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