Abortion attitudes are compared in three countries whose laws have become more restrictive: El Salvador, Poland, and the US. The sources of abortionatittudes in these countries are compared to those in Mexico, Czech Republic, and Canada, respectively. In the first two comparisons, feminist...

In this paper, I will estimate the dimensionality of public attitudes toward science, and assess the effects of religious belief, membership, and participation on the structure and distribution of attitudes toward science. In so doing, I hope to address the question of whether, and to what...

In recent years, abortion has become a salient issue in Mexican politics. In this study, we intend to use data from the World Values Surveys to acertain the correlates of attitudes toward abortion among Mexican mass publics. We will examine the effects of attitudinal variables (respect for life,...