Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights: Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash

by Matthew Benjamin Incantalupo, Thomas Joseph Hayes, Charles Anthony Smith, et al.

Book Overview

Media and scholastic accounts describe a strong public opinion backlash--a sharply negative and enduring opinion change--against attempts to advance gay rights. Academic research, however, increasingly questions backlash as an explanation for opposition to LGBT rights. Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights argues that what appears to be public opinion backlash against gay rights is more consistent with elite-led mobilization--a strategy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472038648
• ISBN13: 9780472038640
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"