Abstract
All organizations filing amicus briefs in 18 Surpreme Court cases and testifying at 23 congressional hearings on abortion are classified to test these five hypotheses on coalition-building regarding moral conflicts: (1) only interests directly affected will be activated; (2) single-issue groups will dominate; (3) economic interests are not involved; (4) coaliation-building is more extensive by advocates of social change; and (5) group conflict will focus primarily on the judicial branch. All these hypotheses, extensions of the policy paradigm developed by Theodore J. Lowi, were validated. It was also found that the pro-choice coalition has changed,with groups representing women the most important constituency today whereas in the 1970s the more salient organizations were health care providers. And while both sides lobby the Court more than Congress, abortion opponents devote more attention to the legislature, indicating that the institutional scope of conflict will shift between these policy arenas depe...
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