Legislative victory, electoral uncertainty: Explaining outcomes in the battles over lesbian and gay civil rights

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 671-690

  Haider Markel, Donald P ^a   Meier, Kenneth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL RIGHTS; GENDER ISSUE; HOMOSEXUALITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0347900400     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1541-1338.2003.00046.x     Document Type: Article

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