Issue Voting in U.S. Senate Elections: The Abortion Issue in 1990
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1994
Publication Title
Congress & the Presidency
Volume
21
Issue
2
First page number:
99
Last page number:
111
Abstract
Most studies of Senate elections have used aggregate data to examine the sources of electoral success. These studies have shown that incumbency, challenger quality, and candidate spending are important sources of electoral outcomes. Yet research also suggests that issues matter in Senate elections. In this study, we show that the abortion issue was an important source of vote choice in some of the 1990 Senate elections.
Keywords
Abortion; Elections; United States. Congress. Senate
Disciplines
American Politics | Political Science
Language
English
Repository Citation
Cook, E. A.,
Jelen, T. G.,
Wilcox, C.
(1994).
Issue Voting in U.S. Senate Elections: The Abortion Issue in 1990.
Congress & the Presidency, 21(2),
99-111.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07343469409507881