Direct Democracy and Minority Rights: Same-Sex Marriage Bans in the U.S. States

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 364-383

  Lewis, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIVIL RIGHTS; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HOMOSEXUALITY; LEGAL ASPECT; MARRIAGE; MINORITY GROUP; PHYSIOLOGY; POLICY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SPOUSE;

CIVIL RIGHTS; DEMOCRACY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOMOSEXUALITY; MARRIAGE; MINORITY GROUPS; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SPOUSES;

EID: 79955526855     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2011.00773.x     Document Type: Article

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