We examine whether increasing the presence of women in state legislatures improves state elderly friendliness. A number of studies have found that the presence of women is associated with broadly kinder, gentler legislative initiatives toward various aspects of social and educational policies....

The United States faces a rapidly growing population of elderly citizens. To learn more about their prospects, we engage in three tasks. First, we develop and operationalize a five-dimensional concept, “state elderly friendliness,” that facilitates assessing various political, economic, and...

The primary purpose of this paper is to introduce an alternative, grid-group theory, to the conventional liberal-conservative continuum for understanding the structure of mass belief systems. We also examine the potential advantages of this alternative in explaining preference formation with a...