Healthcare Reform: A Prescription for the 2010 Republican Landslide?

Saldin, Robert P.

doi:10.2202/1540-8884.1404

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“…The egalitarian character of public healthcare has often been a target of criticism in conservative and rightwing milieus (cf. Saldin, 2010). The particular facet of right-wing ideology that is responsible for such anti-egalitarian objections is known as social dominance orientation -a belief-system that supports group hierarchies and justifies existing inequalities (Pratto et al, 1994;Sidanius & Pratto, 1999).…”

Section: The Anti-egalitarian Aspects Of Social Dominance Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy: An Ideological Dual-Process Approach

Soral¹,

Bilewicz²

2021

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Ideological convictions are known to shape attitudes and behaviour in various life domains. Based on existing psychological analyses of political ideology, we use an ideological dual-process approach to explain people’s vaccine hesitancy, in which distinguish between authoritarian (RWA) and hierarchical (SDO) facets of conservatism as potential antecedents of vaccination attitudes. In a large international study performed in Germany (N = 1210), Poland (N = 1209), and the United Kingdom (N = 1222), we tested the roles of SDO and RWA in predicting vaccination hesitancy, as well as cross-cultural universality of the the pattern of relationships between political ideologies and attitudes toward vaccines. In all three countries, high SDO was associated with higher vaccine hesitancy, whereas high RWA was associated with lower vaccine hesitancy. These findings contribute to our understanding of the distinctive roles that these two facets of right-wing ideology might play in the domain of public health.

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Section: The Anti-egalitarian Aspects Of Social Dominance Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy: An Ideological Dual-Process Approach

Soral¹,

Bilewicz²

2021

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“…The potential effectiveness of this strategy increased significantly after the 2010 mid‐term elections. As well as inflicting a “shellacking” on Democrats in Congressional elections (Branigin, ), with evidence that a backlash against the ACA‐motivated conservative voters (Saldin, ), Republicans gained six governorships and over 600 seats in state legislatures, giving the party its highest number of state legislators since the Great Depression (Hansen, ).…”

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Policy Feedback and the Politics of the Affordable Care Act

Béland¹,

Rocco²,

Waddan³

2018

Policy Studies Journal

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There is a large body of literature devoted to how “policies create politics” and how feedback effects from existing policy legacies shape potential reforms in a particular area. Although much of this literature focuses on self‐reinforcing feedback effects that increase support for existing policies over time, Kent Weaver and his colleagues have recently drawn our attention to self‐undermining effects that can gradually weaken support for such policies. The following contribution explores both self‐reinforcing and self‐undermining policy feedback in relationship to the Affordable Care Act, the most important health‐care reform enacted in the United States since the mid‐1960s. More specifically, the paper draws on the concept of policy feedback to reflect on the political fate of the ACA since its adoption in 2010. We argue that, due in part to its sheer complexity and fragmentation, the ACA generates both self‐reinforcing and self‐undermining feedback effects that, depending of the aspect of the legislation at hand, can either facilitate or impede conservative retrenchment and restructuring. Simultaneously, through a discussion of partisan effects that shape Republican behavior in Congress, we acknowledge the limits of policy feedback in the explanation of policy stability and change.

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“…These bills helped provoke a popular backlash that was more severe than most Democrats expected. The economic stimulus bill served as a major rallying point for the nascent Tea Party movement, and health care reform only added to the controversy (Saldin, 2010). Cap and trade received less attention—in part because it did not pass the Senate—but the bill was seen as an important issue in districts that would be most affected by the price it would have placed on carbon emissions (Samuelsohn & Bravender, 2010).…”

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One Vote Out of Step? The Effects of Salient Roll Call Votes in the 2010 Election

Nyhan

McGhee

Sides

et al. 2012

American Politics Research

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We investigate the relationship between controversial roll call votes and support for Democratic incumbents in the 2010 midterm elections. Consistent with previous analyses, we find that supporters of health care reform paid a significant price at the polls. We go beyond these analyses by identifying a mechanism for this apparent effect: constituents perceived incumbents who supported health care reform as more ideologically distant (in this case, more liberal), which in turn was associated with lower support for those incumbents. Our analyses show that this perceived ideological difference mediates most of the apparent impact of support for health care reform on both individual-level vote choice and aggregate-level vote share. We conclude by simulating counterfactuals that suggest health care reform may have cost Democrats their House majority.

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Healthcare Reform: A Prescription for the 2010 Republican Landslide?

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy: An Ideological Dual-Process Approach

The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy: An Ideological Dual-Process Approach

Policy Feedback and the Politics of the Affordable Care Act

One Vote Out of Step? The Effects of Salient Roll Call Votes in the 2010 Election

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