From the Windy City Times:
Within the Midwest Political Science Association's ( MPSA ) 72nd annual conference, LGBT-related caucus panel "LGBT equality: Public opinion, public policy, and political representation" was held at Palmer House Chicago April 3... Ben Bishin of the University of California, Riverside spoke on behalf of his paper "Testing Backlash: The Influence of Political Institutions on Public Attitudes Toward Gay Rights." Authored with Charles A. Smith, Matthew Incantalupo and Thomas J. Hayes, the paper covers the fear of backlash that has been used to discourage litigation over equality. Providing the first rigorous assessment of backlash using an online experiment, a natural experiment and looking at observational data.

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