Abstract
The entry of the New Christian Right into the American political arena in the 1 980s provoked a number of scholarly controversies including a debate about the orientation of Americans to politicized sociomoral issues. Following a review of the debate, a typology of political arenas is proposed. The typology generalizes Converse's (1964) analysis of belief systems in mass publics. The hypothesis that the American political arena in the 1 980s contained one of the types, a quasi-ideological politics of sociomoral issues, is tested with data from the 1980 and 1988 General Social Surveys. The hypothesis is not rejected.
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