In Search of a Constituency for the "New Religious Right" |
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| Authors: | MUELLER CAROL |
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| Institution: | Carol Mueller is a Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College. This paper was originally presented at the 1981 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, New York (September 3–6). The research was supported by funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through a grant to Radcliffe College while the author was a Radcliffe Research Scholar at the Henry A. Murray Research Center. The assistance of Charles Judd in the design of the analysis is gratefully acknowledged, as is the programming help of Mark Meterko. The paper has also benefitted from the helpful comments of Myra Marx Ferree and two anonymous readers for this journal. |
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| Abstract: | The paper evaluates claims by the "New Religious Right" to havecreated a mass constituency or a new "moral majority." The paperexamines evidence for the development over the l970s of newconsciousness which reflected politicization of a growing moralopposition to three feminist issues: abortion, sexual preference,and women's liberation. Comparisons are drawn with attitudestoward 11 national spending priorities. All the findings runcontrary to claims for a newly politicized "moral majority."The basic findings are these: (1) there is no conservative trendon the three feminist issues for 1972–80; (2) factor analytictechniques reveal simple factor structure within the three issuesbut not between the three issues over the decade; (3) politicizationof the issues is greater in 1974 than in 1977; and (4) the differencesbetween the religiously involved and others have existed sincethe beginning of the decade and show no evidence of increasingpoliticization during the 1970s. Data are from the NORC GeneralSocial Surveys, 1972–80. |
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