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Stronger Issues, Weaker Predispositions

Stronger Issues, Weaker Predispositions
  • Abortion, Gay Rights, and Authoritarianism
  • Paul Goren
  • Published online:
    09 December 2024
    Print publication:
    16 January 2025
  • Political psychologists have long theorized that authoritarianism structures the positions people take on cultural issues and their party ties. Authoritarianism is durable; it resists the influence of other political judgments; and it is very impactful-in a word, it is strong. By contrast, researchers characterize the attitudes most people hold on most issues as unstable and ineffectual-in a word, weak. But what is true of most issues is not true of the issues that have driven America's long running culture war-abortion and gay rights. This Element demonstrates that moral issue attitudes are stronger than authoritarianism. With data from multiple sources over the period 1992-2020, it shows that (1) moral issue attitudes endure longer than authoritarianism; (2) moral issues predict change in authoritarianism; (3) authoritarianism does not systematically predict change in moral issues; and (4) moral issues have always played a much greater role structuring party ties than authoritarianism.

Understanding the American South
  • Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century
  • Lacy K. Ford
  • Published online:
    05 December 2024
    Print publication:
    12 December 2024
  • Americans in the twenty-first century find themselves searching for new understandings of their history. They seek explanations for chronic political polarization, acute pandemic polarization, social media addiction, heightened concern over global warming and armed global conflict, widening cultural and economic gaps between city and countryside, persistent racial tensions, gender divides, tensions over abortion rights and the public school curriculum, and a forty-year pattern of increasing economic inequality in the United States. Americans are looking for a past that can help them understand the divided and fractious present, a past that enlightens and inspires. In this collection of original essays, Lacy K. Ford uses the past to inform the present, as he provides a deeper, more nuanced understanding of American history and the American South's complicated relationship with it.

The Pacific's New Navies
  • An Ocean, its Wars, and the Making of US Sea Power
  • Thomas M. Jamison
  • Published online:
    05 December 2024
    Print publication:
    12 December 2024
  • The initial creation of the United States' ocean-going battlefleet – otherwise known as the 'New Navy' – was a result of the naval wars and arms races around the Pacific during the late-nineteenth century. Using a transnational methodology, Thomas Jamison spotlights how US Civil War-era innovations catalyzed naval development in the Pacific World, creating a sense that the US Navy was falling behind regional competitors. As the industrializing 'newly-made navies' of Chile, Peru, Japan, and China raced against each other, Pacific dynamism motivated investments in the US 'New Navy as a matter of security and civilizational prestige. In this provocative exploration into the making of modern US navalism, Jamison provides an analysis of competitive naval build-ups in the Pacific, of the interactions between peoples, ideas, and practices within it, and ultimately the emergence of the US as a major power.
The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021

The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021
  • Kirsten Widner, Anna Gunderson
  • Published online:
    04 December 2024
    Print publication:
    09 January 2025
  • Courts are often thought of as protectors of minority rights. What happens when the composition of courts changes such that politically disadvantaged groups expect a less favorable reception? This Element examines whether the increasing conservatism of the US Supreme Court during Donald Trump's presidency changed the behavior of litigants and amicus curiae. The authors test whether membership changes led to reduced filings by individuals and organizations representing marginalized groups and increased filings by businesses and conservative states and interest groups. The authors find substantial reductions in participation by the most politically disadvantaged and substantial increases in participation by the most conservative groups.
A Republic If You Can Afford It

A Republic If You Can Afford It
  • How Much Does it Cost to Administer Elections?
  • Zachary Mohr, Martha Kropf, Mary Jo McGowan, JoEllen Pope
  • Published online:
    02 December 2024
    Print publication:
    19 December 2024
  • The cost of administering elections is an importantly understudied area in election science. This book reports election costs in 48 out of 50 states. It discusses the challenges and opportunities of collecting local election costs. The book then presents the wide variation in cost across the country with the lowest spending states spending a little over $2 per voter and the highest spending almost $20 per voter. The amounts being spent in the state are also examined over the election time period of 2008 – 2016. Economic events like the Great Recession had predictable effects on lowering spending on elections but the patterns are not the same across the different regions of the country. The relationship between spending and election administration outcomes is also explored and finds that the voters' confidence and perceptions of fraud in elections is associated with the amount spent on election administration.

  • “A Position Which my Gayness Itself Leads Me to Take”: Sexual-Minority Antiabortion Activists

  • ISOBEL BLOOM
  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 5 / December 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 January 2025, pp. 740-767
    Print publication:
    December 2024

  • Since the 1990s, the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians (PLAGAL) has positioned sexual minorities and fetuses as alike in struggle. The lesbian, gay, and bisexual members of this relatively small organization argued that tolerance and inclusivity of their positionality were strategically beneficial to both the gay rights and antiabortion movements. Ultimately, PLAGAL failed to convince many of the “legitimacy” of their campaigns, and was repeatedly expelled from both right-to-life rallies and Pride marches. This notwithstanding, PLAGAL organizing reveals much about (the limits of) identity politics and the relationship of different social and political movements in this turbulent decade.

  • AMS volume 58 issue 5 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 5 / December 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 November 2025, pp. f1-f3
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    December 2024
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  • AMS volume 58 issue 5 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 5 / December 2024
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    06 November 2025, pp. b1-b2
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  • Women’s Work in the Dystopian West: “The Colonies” in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale

  • KARA L. MCCORMACK
  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 5 / December 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 December 2024, pp. 718-739
    Print publication:
    December 2024

  • This paper examines the ways the Colonies in the American streaming service Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale utilize western myth to reimagine the American West as an entirely female space. Relying on popular understandings of the significance of the mythic West, traditional conceptions of the West as masculine, and the narrative function of the western, it argues that the Colonies offer regeneration and renewal for the women whose agency has been stripped in the hypergendered oppressive nation of Gilead. By reinstilling a sense of power and freedom in the women sent there, the Colonies operate much like the West of the imagination, allowing these women to escape the confines of Gilead and the chance to both return to their authentic selves and foresee a better world.

  • Modernists and Muslims: E. J. Pace and His Islam-Inspired Cartoons

  • STEVEN BEMBRIDGE
  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 5 / December 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 January 2025, pp. 661-688
    Print publication:
    December 2024

  • The Christian cartoonist E. J. Pace (1880–1946) began his career during the fundamentalist–modernist controversy of the 1920s. Pace often reacted against liberal evangelicalism, or modernism, in his cartoons, and Islam appeared alongside it on several occasions. This article discusses for the first time Pace’s Islam-inspired cartoons. It explores the socioreligious contexts of their creation and the theological reasons why Pace used them as a tool with which to attack modernism and its perceived threat to America’s souls. Pace may have cartooned Islam to bolster fundamentalist evangelicalism, but his cartoons also create moments of unintended unity that remain culturally relevant today.

  • Conclusion

  • Joshua D. Blank, University of California, Irvine, Ari Glogower, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  • Book:
    Untaxed
    Published online:
    22 November 2024
    Print publication:
    28 November 2024, pp 239-242

  • Summary

    The Conclusion emphasizes the book’s primary argument, that its proposed system of means-based adjustments to the tax compliance rules would more effectively deter tax avoidance and evasion by the rich than would reforms focused solely on increasing the IRS’s funding or on rules targeting specific potentially abusive activities. It notes that the book has provided four practical applications of this approach – as adjustments to tax penalties, penalty defenses, the statute of limitations, and information reporting – but that these examples are just the beginning. The book concludes that its analysis and new approach to tax administration should be relevant to legislators and other tax policymakers, scholars of both tax law and progressivity, and federal and state tax administrators.

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