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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- On Tue, 24/5/11, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know that it's been reviewed in
analytical terms at
that
level. It's so offensive on one level that academics
and political
commentators seem to just shy away from it rather than
addressing the
rather deep "Hey, what does this say about
society/politics/etc".
There is some academic analysis of this sort in
Value war: public opinion and the politics of gay rights
By Paul Ryan Brewer
Pages 80ff, especially the chapter "The rewards and risks of signaling"
starting on page 81 (covering the rewards and risks for political actors
signaling their stance on gay issues to the electorate). Unfortunately, I
can't see the relevant page in Google Books, and amazon has no preview.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U34pJTdF-VcC&pg=PA81&dq=%22The+R…
The work is actually cited in the article, but only for the "frothy
mixture"
quote.
Andreas
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