A randomized experiment of issue framing and voter support of tax increases for health insurance expansion

Rodríguez, Hector P.; Laugesen, Miriam; Watts, Carolyn

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.06.020

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“…Support was highest for military veterans, followed by children, followed by American citizens. Beyond this, they found that party identification “was the strongest predictor of support” (Rodriguez et al., , p. 245). Although veterans enjoyed bipartisan support, Republicans were less likely than Democrats to support increased taxes to fund benefits for all children or all citizens.…”

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“…More recently, Hector Rodriguez, Miriam Laugesen, and Carolyn Watts () conducted a survey experiment that examined the willingness of voters to support increased taxes to finance expanded access to health insurance. Their experiment randomly varied two frames (one frame emphasized “externalities,” the negative consequences of the uninsured on the insured, and the other emphasized “racial and ethnic disparities in health insurance coverage”) and asked respondents about three target groups (all American citizens, all children, and all military veterans).…”

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The Effects of Beneficiary Targeting on Public Support for Social Policies

Lawrence¹,

Stoker²,

Wolman³

2013

Policy Studies Journal

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We assess the tendency for the public to use group-centric policy evaluations with evidence from a survey experiment concerning two issues within the social policy domain, health care and aid to cities. By randomly varying target group identity within each issue and using both negatively and positively regarded groups our evidence shows that differences exist in the tendency for members of the public to use group-centric heuristics. Group-centric evaluations are related to party identification and political ideology. Across both issues conservatives and Republicans are more likely than liberals or Democrats to adopt a group-centric heuristic. Partisan and ideological differences suggest that established theories miss the mark by emphasizing how universal policy designs are preferred to designs that target unpopular groups.

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Section: Existing Researchmentioning

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The Effects of Beneficiary Targeting on Public Support for Social Policies

Lawrence¹,

Stoker²,

Wolman³

2013

Policy Studies Journal

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“…Given the important roles of nonprofit organizations in governance processes, changes in civic engagement can have large consequences for public policy. Research has shown that the right framing can increase popular support for retrenchments (Elmelund‐Præstekær and Emmenegger ; Rodriguez, Laugesen, and Watts ). Our study goes a step further by examining whether information about budget cuts can lead to different civic behavior.…”

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Can Charitable Donations Compensate for a Reduction in Government Funding? The Role of Information

Wit

Bekkers

2020

Public Administration Review

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Are private donors willing to replace cuts in government funding? The authors conducted a survey experiment (n = 2,458) to examine how information about government funding affected decisions to donate money to a large charitable organization in the Netherlands. Providing information about actual budget cuts increased the number of donors. Most new donors were recruited among respondents who had processed the information correctly, underlining the importance of effective communication. The magnitude of the information effect was stronger for citizens with lower levels of empathic concern, who are less likely to donate but can be converted into donors. The authors conclude that policy information shapes not only attitudes but also civic engagement outside the political sphere.

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“…Work strongly, perhaps centrally, 274 distinguishes the deserving in American social policy. 275 287,288,289,290,291 as are those pursuing education. 292,293 While '''the rich''' and '''Wall Street bankers''' are often viewed unfavorably, 294 customers or '''clients''' 295,296,297 in the economy are constructed favorably.…”

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“…Children 363,364,365,366 and elderly people are treated as deserving, 367,368 as are the disabled, 369 with some caveats. 370,371 Families are viewed favorably, 372 but single-parent households less so.…”

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Are press depictions of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries favorable to policy durability?

Chattopadhyay

2015

Politics and the Life Sciences

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ABSTRACT. Background: If successfully implemented and enduring, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stands to expand health insurance access in absolute terms, reduce inter-group disparities in that access, and reduce exposure to the financial vulnerabilities illness entails. Its durability-meaning both avoidance of outright retrenchment and fidelity to its policy aims-is thus of scholarly interest. Past literature suggests that social constructions of a policy's beneficiaries may impact durability.Questions: This paper first describes media portrayals of ACA beneficiaries with an eye toward answering three descriptive questions: (1) Do portrayals depict beneficiaries as economically heterogeneous? (2) Do portrayals focus attention on groups that have acquired new political relevance due to the ACA, such as young adults? (3) What themes that have served as messages about beneficiary ''deservingness'' in past social policy are most frequent in ACA beneficiary portrayals? The paper then assesses how the portrayal patterns that these questions uncover may work both for and against the ACA's durability, finding reasons for confidence as well as caution. Methods Implications and Conclusions:Existing literature suggests that these portrayal patterns may both support and limit ACA durability. In favor of durability is that ACA beneficiaries are depicted in terms that have been associated with deservingness in past American social policy-particularly being cast as workers and insiders. Yet, the results also give three reasons for caution. First, ACA insurance-losers are also portrayed as deserving. Second, it is unclear how the portrayal patterns found may impact the durability of the ACA's efforts to cut insurance disparities by age, health status, and especially race/ethnicity. Third, portrayals' strong casting of beneficiaries as workers, and limited attention to beneficiaries' economic heterogeneity and to young adults, may do little to help cultivate beneficiary political engagement around the ACA.

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A randomized experiment of issue framing and voter support of tax increases for health insurance expansion

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

The Effects of Beneficiary Targeting on Public Support for Social Policies

The Effects of Beneficiary Targeting on Public Support for Social Policies

Can Charitable Donations Compensate for a Reduction in Government Funding? The Role of Information

Are press depictions of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries favorable to policy durability?

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