Second Coming: The Strategies of the New Christian Right

Mobilizing Candidates: Political Actors Strategically Shape the Candidate Pool with Personal Appeals

“…For example, union leaders may sensibly expect that a person who has dedicated tremendous time and effort to the 1 See also Barbour et al (2013, p. 32) for explicit discussion by Republican party elites of their party's current extensive recruitment efforts and the need to direct these recruitment resources in various new strategic directions (e.g., the need to recruit women and minorities to run in order to influence the party's image among female and minority voters). 2 See Seligman (1961); Sorauf (1963); Williams and Adrian (1963); Snowiss (1966); Seligman et al (1974);Thurber (1976); Lipset (1983); Jacobson (1985); Fowler and McClure (1989, p. 53);Hertzke (1994); Layzell and Overby (1994); Rozell and Wilcox (1996); Niven (1998); Rozell (2000); Jewell and Morehouse (2000, p. 55); Moncrief et al (2001); Sanbonmatsu (2003Sanbonmatsu ( , 2006b; Lawless andFox (2005, 2010); Bendavid (2007); Sanbonmatsu et al (2009);Masket (2009);Galvin (2010); Masket (2011);Crowder-Meyer (2011); Masket and Shor (2011);and Mann and Ornstein (2012, p. 9). union's political efforts for the last decade would remain committed to advancing unions' political priorities if elected.…”

Same-Sex Marriage Ballot Measures and the 2004 Presidential Election

“…The main control variable estimating the vote for Bush in 2004 is the level of support Bush received in 2000 and is expected to be strongly positive. Even though evangelical Protestants are not always a cohesive voting bloc and are sometimes apolitical (Smidt 1988;Wilcox 1989;Jelen and Wilcox 1992;Green 1994;Rozell and Wilcox 1996;Shibley 1998;Wilcox 2000), the density of evangelicals in a county is expected in Ohio to help explain support for Bush, as Issue 1 was vigorously pushed by evangelical leaders. Similarly, in Michigan, the county density of Catholics is expected to be positively related to the vote for Bush.…”

Right-Wing Organizers Do This Too: The Case of the Christian Coalition

“…Both the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition were conceived and developed as elite-initiated efforts by rightwing activists "to take control of the government" (Marley, 2007, p. 212). For them, grassroots meant local and outsider, more than bottom-up (Rozell & Wilcox, 1996, 1997. Lind, a former conservative insider, argued that "The front organizations of the grass-roots right appear and vanish with startling rapidity, while a few professional activists-conservative anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly and far-right organizers Paul Weyrich and Howard Phillips-endure at the center of the grassroots movement" (Lind, 1996, p.…”