Saying no to abstinence-only education: An analysis of state decision-making

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 613-635

  Doan, Alesha E ^a   McFarlane, Deborah R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867418508     PISSN: 00485950     EISSN: 17477107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/publius/pjr052     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Alston, Chuck. 1991. Call to fuse federal programs greeted skeptically on Hill: Governors love block grants, but even they are suspicious that consolidation means red ink-or elimination. Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report 49 (March 2): 540-544
2. Anton, Thomas J. 1989. American federalism and public policy: How the system works. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
3. Arsneault, Shelly. 2001. Values and virtue: The politics of abstinence-only sex education. American Review of Public Administration 31 (4): 436-454
4. Beam, David R., and Timothy J. Conlan. 2002. Grants. Chapter 11. In The Tools of Government: A Guide to the New Governance, ed. Lester M. Salamon. New York: Oxford University Press
5. Bensonsmith, Dionne. 2005. Jezebels, matriarchs, and welfare queens: The Moynihan Report of 1965 and the social construction of African American women in welfare policy. In Deserving and entitled: Social construction and public policy, ed. Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram, 243-259. New York: State University of New York Press
6. Berry, Frances Stokes, and William D. Berry. 1990. State lottery adoptions as policy innovations: An event history analysis. The American Political Science Review 84 (2): 395-415
7. Berry, William D., Evan J. Ringquist, Richard C. Fording, and Russell L. Hanson. 1998 Measuring citizen and government ideology in the American states, 1960-93. American Journal of Political Science 42 (1): 327-348
8. Bleakley, Amy, Michael Hennessy, and Martin Fishbein. 2006. Public opinion on sex education in US schools. Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine 160: 1151-1156
9. Box-Steffensmeier, Janet, and Bradford S. Jones. 2004. Event history modeling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
10. Bradford, David F., and Wallace E. Oates. 1973. Toward a predictive theory of intergovernmental grants. American Economic Review 61: 3, 440-448 (cited in Nicholson-Crotty 2004
11. Brown, Carrie Budoff. 2007. Specter's pet project: Sexual abstinence. Politico, October 31. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6629.html (accessed March 12, 2011
12. Calfano, Brian Robert. 2010. The power of brand: Beyond interest group influence in U.S. state abortion politics. State Politics & Policy Quarterly 10 (3): 227-247
13. Camobreco, John, and Michelle A. Barnello. 2008. Democratic responsiveness and policy shock: The case of state abortion policy. State Politics & Policy Quarterly 8 (1): 48-65
14. Chubb, John E. 1985. The political economy of federalism. The American Political Science Review 79 (4): 994-1015
15. Conlan, Timothy. 1984. The politics of federal block grants. Political Science Quarterly 99: 247-270
16. Darroch, Jacqueline E., David J. Landry, and Susheela Singh. 2000. Changing emphases in sexuality education in U.S. secondary schools, 1988-1999. Family Planning Perspectives 32 (5): 204-211, 265
17. De Figueiredo, R., and B. Weingast. 2002. Self-enforcing federalism. Unpublished paper. Stanford University: The Hoover Institution, (cited in Oates 2005
18. Dewan, Shaila. 2009. Governors may reject portions of stimulus. New York Times. (2/21, p. A12(L
19. Doan, Alesha E., and Jean C. Williams. 2008. The politics of virginity: Abstinence in sex education. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press
20. Donovan, Todd, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Daniel A. Smith. 2008. Priming presidential votes by direct democracy. The Journal of Politics 70 (4): 1217-1231
21. Dyck, Joshua J., and Laura S. Hussey. 2008. The end of welfare as we know it? Durable attitudes in a changing information environment. Public Opinion Quarterly 72 (4): 589-618
22. Fields, Jessica. 2005. Children having children: Race, innocence, and sexuality education. Social Problems 52 (4): 549-571
23. Goetz, Charles J., and C. R. McKnew. 1973. Paradoxical results in a public choice model of alternative government grant forms. In The theory of public choice: Essays in application, ed. J. M. Buchanan and R.S. Tollison. 189-224. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, (cited in Nicholson-Crotty 2004
24. Gramlich, Edward. 1977. Intergovernmental grants: A review of the empirical literature. In The political economy of fiscal federalism, ed. W. E. Oates. Lexington, MA: Lexington
25. Grogan, Colleen M., and Elizabeth Rigby. 2009. Federalism, partisan politics, and shifting support for state flexibility: The case of the U.S. state children's health insurance program. Publius (Winter) 39: 47-69
26. Haider-Markel, Donald P. 2001. Policy diffusion as a geographic expansion of the scope of political conflict: Same sex marriage bans in the 1990s. State Politics and Policy Quarterly 1 (1): 5-26
27. Haider-Markel, Donald P., and Kenneth J. Meier. 1996. The politics of gay and lesbian rights: Expanding the scope of conflict. The Journal of Politics 58 (2): 332-349
28. Haider-Markel, Donald P., and Matthew S. Kaufman. 2006. Public opinion and policy making in the culture wars: Is there a connection between opinion and state policy on gay and lesbian issues? In Public Opinion in State Politics, ed. Jeffrey E. Cohen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University
29. Hanna, John. 2011. NEA Delivers Bad News to Kansas Arts Commission. LJWorld.com. (October 27) http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/oct/27/nea-delivers- bad-news-kansasarts-commission/ (accessed November 14, 2011
30. Hudnall, David. 2011. Sam Brownback's crusade against the Kansas arts commission. The Pitch. (6/7), http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/sam-brownbacks- crusade-against-the-kansasarts-commission/Content?oid2448163 (accessed November 14, 2011
31. Ingram, Helen M., and Anne L. Schneider. 2005. Introduction: Public policy and the social construction of deservedness. In Deserving and entitled: Social construction and public policy, ed. Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram. 1-28. New York: State University of New York Press
32. Irvine, Janet M. 2002. Talk about sex: The battles over sex education in the United States. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
33. Isidore, Chris. 2008. It's Official: Recession since Dec. '07: The National Bureau of Economic Research declares what most americans already knew: The Downturn has been going on for some time. CNN Money. (December 1) http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/01/news/economy/recession/index.htm (November 14, 2011
34. Kaiser Family Foundation. 2011. Establishing health insurance exchanges: An update on state efforts. Focus on Health Reform. http://www.kff.org/ healthreform/8213.cfm (accessed November 14, 2011
35. Landry, David, Lisa Kaeser, and Cory L. Richards. 1999. Abstinence promotion and the provision of information about contraception in public school district sexuality education policies. Family Planning Perspectives 31 (6): 280-286
36. Lax, Jeffrey R., and Justin H. Phillips. 2009. Gay rights in the states: Public opinion and policy responsiveness. American Political Science Review 103 (3): 367-386
37. Layman, Geoffrey, Thomas M. Carsey, John C. Green, Richard Herrera, and Rosalyn Cooperman. 2010. Activists and conflict extension in American party politics. American Political Science Review 104 (2): 324-346
38. LeClair, Danielle. 2006. Let's talk about sex honestly: Why federal abstinence-only-untilmarriage education programs discriminate against girls, are bad public policy, and should be overturned. Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 29 (291): 291-323
39. Luttrell, Wendy. 2003. Pregnant bodies, fertile minds: Gender, race, and the schooling of pregnant teens. New York: Routledge
40. McFarlane, Deborah R. 2012. Reproductive health politics and politics. In Health Policy and Politics, 5th ed., ed. Daniel Ehlke James Morone. Florence, KY: Delmar Cengage Publishers
41. McFarlane, Deborah R., and Kenneth J. Meier. 1998. Do different funding mechanisms produce different result? The implications of family planning for fiscal federalism. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 23 (3): 423-454
42. Mead, Lawrence M. 2004. Government matters: Welfare reform in Wisconsin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
43. Meier, Kenneth J. 1999. Symposium: The politics of morality policy - drugs, sex, rock, and roll: A theory of morality politics. Policy Studies Journal 27 (4): 681-695
44. Mooney, Christopher Z. 2000. The decline of federalism and the rise of morality-policy conflict in the United States. Publius 30: 1-2, 171-188
45. - 2001. The public clash of private values: The politics of morality policy. In The Public Clash of Private Values, ed. Christopher Z. Mooney. 3-20. New York: Chatham House Publishers
46. Mooney, Christopher Z., and Mei-Hsien Lee. 2000. The influence of values on consensus and contentious morality policy: U.S. death penalty reform, 1965-82. American Journal of Political Science 62 (1): 223-239
47. Moran, Jeffrey P. 2002. Teaching sex: The shaping of adolescence in the 20th century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
48. National Conference of State Legislatures. 2004-2008. ''Legislator Demographics.''http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid14850 (accessed September 7, 2009). National Governors Association. 2008. www.nga.org
49. National Poverty Center. 2008. Poverty facts. http://www.npc.umich.edu/ poverty/#3 (accessed July 20, 2009
50. National Vital Statistics. 2010. Teen birth rates. http://www.cdc.gov/ nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/ nvsr59-01.pdf (accessed March 4, 2011
51. Nicholson-Crotty, Sean. 2004. Goal conflict and fund diversion in federal grants to the states. American Journal of Political Science, 48 (1): 110-122
52. Oates, Wallace E. 1972. Fiscal federalism. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
53. - 2005. Toward a second generation of fiscal federalism. International Tax and Public Finance 12: 349-373
54. Patton, Dana. 2007. The supreme court and morality policy adoption in the American states: The impact of constitutional context. Political Research Quarterly 60 (3): 468-488
55. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, Public Law no. 104-193, 110 Stat. 2105
56. Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. 2008. Religious landscape survey. http://www. northamericanmissions.org/?qnode/409 (accessed January 3, 2011
57. Posner, Paul L., and Margaret T. Wrightson. 1996. Block grants: A perennial, but unstable, tool of government. Publius 26 (3): 87-108
58. Raymond, Marissa, Lylyana Bogdanovich, Dalia Brahmi, Laura Jane Cardinal, Gulielma Leondard Fager, Leigh Ann C. Frattarelli, and Gabrielle Hecker, et al. 2008 State refusal of federal funding for abstinence-only programs. Sexuality Research and Social Policy 5 (3): 44-55
59. Rich, Michael J. 1989. Distributive politics and the allocation of federal grants. American Political Science Review 83 (1): 193-213
60. SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States). 2007. State profiles: A portrait of sexuality education and abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in the states (Fiscal Year 2007 Edition). http://www.siecus.org
61. - 2008a. We're outta here: 25 states withdraw from crumbling title V abstinenceonly-until-marriage program. http://www.siecus.org
62. - 2008b. State profiles: A portrait of sexuality education and abstinence-only-untilmarriage programs in the states (Fiscal Year 2008 Edition). http://www.siecus.org
63. - 2009. State profiles: A portrait of sexuality education and abstinence-only-untilmarriage programs in the states (Fiscal Year 2009 Edition). http://www.siecus.org
64. - 2011. A portrait of sexuality education and abstinence-only-until- marriage programs in the states: An overview (fiscal year 2010 edition). http://www.siecus.org/index. cfm?fuseactionpage. viewPage&pageID1339&nodeID1 (accessed November14, 2011
65. Sharp, Elaine B. 2005. Morality politics in American cities. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press
66. Stein, Robert M. 1979. Federal categorical aid: Equalization and the application process. Western Political Quarterly 32 (4): 369-409
67. Trenholm, C., B. Devaney, K. Fortson, L. Quay, J. Wheeler, and M. Clark. 2007. Impacts of four title V, Section 510 abstinence education programs. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Contract #100-98-0010. http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/abstinence07/ (accessed December 14, 2011). United States Bureau of the Census, Governments Division. 2010a. Small area income and poverty estimates. http://www.census.gov/ govs/state/ (accessed January 7, 2011
68. - 2010b. American Community Surveys: Hispanic or Latino/Not Hispanic or Latino, by Race. http://www.census.gov/govs/state/ (accessed January 7, 2011
69. - 2011. 2009 Annual survey of state government finances, Summary Table. http://www.census.gov/govs/state/ (accessed November 25, 2011). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of Population Affairs. 2009. Adolescent family life. http://www.hhs.gov/opa/ familylife/
70. Vergari, Sandra. 2001. Morality politics and the implementation of abstinence-only sex education: A case of policy compromise. In The public clash of private values, ed. Christopher Z. Mooney. 201-212. New York: Chatham House Publishers
71. Volden, Craig. 2007. Intergovernmental grants: A formal model of interrelated national and subnational political decisions. Publius 37 (2): 209-243
72. Weissert, Carol J., and William G. Weissert. 2006. Governing health: The politics of health policy. 3rd ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press