Understanding the Partisan Evolution of America's Culture War

• In Event: Public Opinion and Political Behavior

Brief Overview

Drawing on a new dataset, drawn from over 1,900 state political party platforms between 1960 and 2018, we argue that the groundwork for this partisan divide over abortion and LGBTQ rights was not laid at the state and not the national-level.

Authors

• Justin H. Phillips, Columbia University

• Gerald H. Gamm, University of Rochester

• Matthew Allen Carr, Columbia University