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		<title>A Matter of Context: Christian Right Influence in U.S. State Republican Politics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new article, Kimberly Conger tries to explain why the Christian Right is more influential in some states than in others. Most commentary about Christian conservatives focuses on the national context, but Conger points out that Christian conservatives are often most active at the state level. So what, then, explains their varying level of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delegating Direct Democracy: Interparty Legislative Competition and the Adoption of the Initiative in the American States</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, voters in 24 states can make policy directly through the initiative process. In most of these states, the initiative process was first adopted between 1898 and 1918. Smith and Fridkin seek to explain why only these states, and not others, adopted the initiative. Previous Work Because most of the states that adopted the initiative [...]]]></description>
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