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The Use of Faith in Legislative Decision-Making: Bill Sponsorship

The Use of Faith in Legislative Decision-Making: Bill Sponsorship

Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 29
ISBN13: 9781522523888|ISBN10: 152252388X|EISBN13: 9781522523895
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2388-8.ch003
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Karla Drenner. "The Use of Faith in Legislative Decision-Making: Bill Sponsorship." Impacts of Faith-Based Decision Making on the Individual-Level Legislative Process: Emerging Research and Opportunities, IGI Global, 2017, pp.63-91. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2388-8.ch003

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K. Drenner (2017). The Use of Faith in Legislative Decision-Making: Bill Sponsorship. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2388-8.ch003

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Karla Drenner. "The Use of Faith in Legislative Decision-Making: Bill Sponsorship." In Impacts of Faith-Based Decision Making on the Individual-Level Legislative Process: Emerging Research and Opportunities. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2388-8.ch003

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Abstract

In recent decades, same-sex marriage has emerged as a national political issue. As a result, state legislators have sponsored and passed statutes on an array of issues directly related to this topic. This chapter investigates how faith influences an individual legislator's political judgment in the early-stages of decision making related to sponsored bills. At this stage in the legislative process, influences are minimized. The findings indicate that even while legislator's partisanship and ideology largely structure decision-making, legislators as conservative Protestants are more likely to responds when issues involve morality.

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