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Author: Elaine Kamarck

Elaine C. Kamarck is a senior fellow in the governance studies program as well as the director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution. She is an expert on American electoral politics and government innovation and reform in the United States, OECD nations, and developing countries. She focuses her research on the presidential nomination system and American politics and has worked in many American presidential campaigns. Kamarck is the author of Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates and Why Presidents Fail And How They Can Succeed Again. She is also the author of How Change Happens—or Doesn’t: The Politics of U.S. Public Policy and The End of Government-As We Know It: Making Public Policy Work.
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It Wasn’t Just ‘the Economy Stupid’—It Was Abortion

Elaine Kamarck and William A. Galston

Most pundits insisted abortion wouldn’t drive many votes, but inflation would. How wrong they were.

If you put together the sheer size of the women’s vote, the intensity of the issue and the fact that, unlike inflation or the economy, the two parties have stark differences on the issue, you get a powerful driver of the vote.

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