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Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights
Author(s): Paul R. Brewer (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date: 24 Dec. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742562107
- ISBN-13: 9780742562103
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This is an engaging book about an important topic in U.S. politics. In a clear and cogent manner, Paul Brewer discusses the interactive effect between public opinion and gay rights policymaking. Using a variety of data, including public opinion surveys, content analysis of media messages, and experimental design, he effectively accomplishes his task of showing that public opinion plays an important role in influencing the formulation of gay rights policies and that public debate helps determine the parameters of public opinion on gay rights. — Susan Gluck Mezey, Loyola University, Chicago
Recommended. All levels / libraries. ―
CHOICE, November 2008In Value War, Paul Brewer brings together and extends the themes, data, and analysis from several of his published journal articles to create a book that is certainly more than the simple sum of its parts. Brewer’s accessible text offers an excellent case study of public opinion, but it also provides a framework for examining the role of the media and political elites in public debates over issues like immigration, health care reform, stem cell reserach, or climate change…. ―
Political Communication, Winter 2010This book takes on the long overdue task of carefully documenting and explaining the change in American public opinion on gay rights over the past thirty years. It will help readers better understand the nation’s remarkable shift toward acceptance of homosexuality and the emerging sense among Americans that gays and lesbians deserve equal rights. — Pat Egan, New York University
In Value War, Paul Brewer brings together and extends the themes, data, and analysis from several of his published journal articles to create a book that is certainly more than the simple sum of its parts. Brewer’s accessible text offers an excellent case study of public opinion, but it also provides a framework for examining the role of the media and political elites in public debates over issues like immigration, health care reform, stem cell reserach, or climate change. ―
Political Communication, Winter 2010
