Family policy past as prologue: Jimmy Carter, the White House Conference on Families, and the mobilization of the New Christian Right

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 311-338

  Ribuffo, Leo P ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; HUMAN RIGHTS; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL POWER; SOCIAL POLICY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646054223     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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