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work_ozlvblku2rabhnbuvkqktre2zy	JEFFREY R. LAX	Gay Rights in the States: Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness	2009	25	.pdf	application/pdf	19007	2880	71	Gay Rights in the States: Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness W e study the effects of policy-specific public opinion on state adoption of policies affectinggays and lesbians, and the factors that condition this relationship. Using national surveys andadvances in opinion estimation, we create new estimates of state-level support for eight policies, influence of policy-specific opinion (directly and relative to general voter ideology). To estimate state-level public opinion, we apply recent advances that allow us to produce measures of state-level policy-specific opinion using national surveys and multilevel modeling. actually produces policy reflective of state opinion majorities, therefore, tells us whether federalism produces Notes: Each graph plots the probability of policy adoption derived from the logistic regression curve given state opinion. regression curve given state-level policy-specific opinion. again reveals clear effects of both policy-specific opinion and general voter ideology, but not government Public Opinion and Policy in the States:	./cache/work_ozlvblku2rabhnbuvkqktre2zy.pdf	./txt/work_ozlvblku2rabhnbuvkqktre2zy.txt