The Use of Faith in Legislative Decision-Making

2021 ◽  
pp. 540-560
Author(s):  
Karla Drenner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Political Judgment ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Result State ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Conservative Protestants ◽  
Legislative Decision

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.

The Use of Faith in Legislative Decision-Making

2017 ◽  
pp. 63-91
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Political Judgment ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Result State ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Conservative Protestants ◽  
Legislative Decision

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.

The Use of Faith in Legislative Decision-Making

2022 ◽  
pp. 227-259
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
Political Judgment ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Result State ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Conservative Protestant ◽  
Legislative Decision

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. The findings suggest that even while legislators' partisanship and ideology largely structure decision-making, conservative Protestant legislators are more likely to respond to threats by sponsoring a bill when issues involve morality.

Legislative Decision-Making and Same-Sex Marriage

2022 ◽  
pp. 145-177
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
The State ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Legislative Decision ◽  
Societal Evolution

This chapter will focus on the debate over same-sex marriage. This unprecedented societal evolution began in 1990, when three same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses from the state of Hawaii. They were refused and challenged the state's decision. Although the battle in Hawaii began in court, it ended in the state legislature, spreading from there rapidly across the nation. Legislators responded to the promotion of same-sex marriage by sponsoring and passing bills claiming it contravened their faith-based principles.

scholarly journals Reflexiones en torno al fallido referéndum en Rumanía sobre el matrimonio homosexual = Reflections on the failed same-sex marriage referendum held in Romania

2019 ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Daniel López Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

Resumen: En octubre de 2018, Rumanía celebró un referéndum sobre la prohibición constitucional de los matrimonios del mismo sexo, que había sido previamente respaldada por amplia mayoría en la Cámara de Diputados y el Senado. La convocatoria de la consulta hizo aflorar las ya habituales críticas hacia la institución referendaria, haciéndose hincapié en la inconveniencia de su empleo para dirimir cuestiones relativas a los derechos e intereses de grupos sociales vulnerables. El presente trabajo analiza, a la luz de la experiencia rumana, estas críticas, exponiéndolas a las contradicciones e interrogantes que generan cuando son planteadas sin mayor precisión. Se intenta, así pues, comparar las virtudes del foro parlamentario y el referéndum como instrumentos de decisión, y se insiste en la necesidad de especificar el tipo concreto de consulta popular empleada en cada caso. Finalmente, se argumenta la conveniencia de preservar los referendos como cauce decisivo en el procedimiento de reforma constitucional, subrayando las complicaciones que sin embargo puede ofrecer de cara a su ulterior revisión jurisdiccional.Palabras clave: referéndum, democracia directa, reforma constitucional, derechos fundamentales, matrimonio homosexual.Abstract: In October 2018, Romania held a referendum on the ban of same-sex marriages, which indeed had got the support of a wide majority in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The call for this referendum generated the usual criticism towards the institution of the referendum itself, that points out its inconvenience when it comes to dealing with issues regarding minorities’ rights. Drawing on the Romanian experience, this paper analyses that criticism by going through the contradictions and questions that arise when it is vaguely expressed. The purpose is to compare the advantages of a parliamentary forum and referendums as decision-making tools and to insist in the need of clarifying the specific kind of popular consultation that is to be used. Finally, the writer argues in favor of preserving referendums as decisive means in the process of constitutional reform, stressing however the drawbacks that may eventually arise in case of a judicial review. Keywords: referendum, direct democracy, constitutional reform, fundamental rights, same-sex marriage.

scholarly journals Legislative Decision Making on Education Issues: A Qualitative Study

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Canfield-Davis ◽  
Sachin Jain
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
State Education Policy ◽  
Public Records ◽  
State Education ◽  
Factors Of Influence ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Legislative Decision

The purpose of this descriptive, single case study was to provide knowledge and insight about state education policy-making, specifically, the process by which education-related bills pass through a legislature. This study was also designed to identify factors of influence shaping legislative decision-making as perceived by lawmakers and observers of the legislative process. Sources of evidence included interviews, direct observation, archival records, public records documentation, and tape recordings of committee meetings and Senate floor sessions. Results show that a bill's fate is subject to many planned and unplanned sequential steps, and to a collection of diverse personalities that drive the legislative process. Trust forms the foundation upon which other factors depend including bill sponsors, party leadership, lobbyists, fellow legislators, and constituents.

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