Political Science Department, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri 65987, USA.
Soc Work Public Health. 2011;26(2):158-75. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2011.524505.
In of November 2006, Missouri became the first state in the United States to pass a constitutional amendment designed to protect stem cell research in the state when voters approved a citizen-initiated ballot proposal known as Amendment 2. This article examines the juxtaposition of science, religion, politics, and economics surrounding the campaign by the supporters and the opponents of the ballot initiative. The outcome of Amendment 2 was also closely intertwined with the U.S Senate race in Missouri. The article also provides an analysis of the outcome of the ballot initiative through the use of county-level data.
2006 年 11 月，密苏里州成为美国第一个通过宪法修正案的州，该修正案旨在保护该州的干细胞研究，当时选民批准了一项名为修正案 2 的公民倡议投票提案。本文考察了支持者和反对者在投票倡议活动中围绕科学、宗教、政治和经济的并列。修正案 2 的结果也与密苏里州的美国参议院竞选密切相关。本文还通过使用县级数据对投票倡议的结果进行了分析。
