The Differential Effects of Economic Conditions and Racial Attitudes in the Election of Donald Trump

Green, Jon; McElwee, Sean

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“…The most recent example of this policy conservatism-racial prejudice-partisanship connection is the election of Republican President Donald Trump and his administration. Research shows that whites more fearful of other races/ethnicities were 10 times more likely to vote for Trump (Green & McElwee, 2018). Whites reminded that they will eventually become a minority showed increased support for Trump's anti-immigrant policies (Major, Blodorn, & Major Blascovich, 2018).…”

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The politics hypothesis and racial disparities in infants’ health in the United States

Rodríguez

2019

SSM - Population Health

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We propose the politics hypothesis—i.e., the hypothesis that political forces comprise either a powerful predecessor of the social determinants of health or are essential social determinants of health themselves. We examine the hypothesis that political actors like presidents, their ideology, and institutions like the political parties they represent shape overall and race-specific health outcomes. Using census and Vital Statistics data among many other sources, we apply both theory- and data-driven statistical methods to assess the role of the president's party and the president's political ideology as predictors of overall and race-specific infant mortality in the United States, 1965–2010. We find that, net of trend, Republican presidencies and socially-conservative ideology of U.S. presidents are strongly associated with slower declines of infant mortality rates, overall and for white and black infants, compared to Democratic and socially-liberal presidents in the U.S. Approximately half (46%) of the white-black infant mortality gap, about 20,000 additional infant deaths, and most if not all the infant mortality rate gap between the U.S. and the rest of the developed world, can be attributed to the 28 years of Republican administrations during the study period. These findings are consistent with the politicization of public health and the conceptualization of politics as a powerful predecessor, in the causal chain, of the social determinants of health. Understanding the political ideological and institutional contexts in which health policies and healthcare and welfare programs are implemented, as well as how governments construct culture and social psychology, provide a more comprehensive framework for understanding and improving population patterns of disease, mortality, and entrenched racial disparities in health in the U.S.

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The politics hypothesis and racial disparities in infants’ health in the United States

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2019

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“…However, research on the political causes and consequences of rising economic inequality is flourishing, with a fundamental question being whether economic inequality is associated with inequality in political representation(Bartels 2008; Erikson 2015; Laurison 2016). Representational inequality can in turn generate class differences in political behavior, including differences in the likelihood of participating at all in the electoral process or of resorting to protest(Solt 2008; Weaver and Lerman 2010;Hooker 2016; Evans & Tilley 2017;Green & McElwee 2019;Schäfer & Schwander 2019). Thus in this section we also discuss the behavioral consequences (e.g., voting or non-voting) of class differences in views about the political system.Martin Gilens(2012)provides the most thorough documentation to date of the relationship between income, policy preferences, and policy decisions, finding that actual policy supported by both Democrats and Republicans responds mainly to the preferences of affluent citizens in those instances in which preferences diverge by class.…”

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“…The unidimensional politics of identity -whether racial, cultural, and/or geographical in origin -take center stage, despite the fact that both Hochschild's and Cramer's compelling ethnographic accounts are replete with evidence of the subjects' outrage and despair over the concentration of economic power and resources in the hands of economic and political elites. 8 See especiallyMorgan's (2018) re-analysis ofMutz's (2018) data,Morgan & Lee (2019), andGreen & McElwee (2019), who conclude that "both racial attitudes and economic conditions are significantly associated with voting behavior in 2016...[yet the] findings make clear the difficulty of directly...attributing Donald Trump's election to one as opposed to the other"(Green & McElwee 2019:360). For similar arguments in Europe, seeNaumann & Stoetzer…”

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Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies

Lindh¹,

McCall²

2020

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In many high-income countries today, scholarly interest in the politics of class has coincided with growing economic inequality, rising support for non-mainstream political parties and candidates, and increasing flows of immigration. We review social science research on the views of different class segments vis-à-vis economic, political, and sociocultural issues, finding greater scholarly attention to the interdependence of economic, social, and political concerns and preferences than arguably was the case even a few years ago. Our main aim is to synthesize and critically evaluate this rapidly expanding literature, but we also provide empirical data on class differences and similarities in political opinion across eighteen countries, and we pinpoint several areas of research that are in need of further empirical, methodological, and theoretical inquiry. Acknowledgements:We are extremely grateful for comments from the ARS reviewer and editor, Social Cleavages and Orientations, ed. S Svallfors, pp. 30-79. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press Edlund J, Lindh A. 2013. Institutional trust and welfare state support: on the role of trust in market institutions. J. Public Policy 33(3):295-317 Edlund J, Lindh A. 2015. The democratic class struggle revisited: the welfare state, social cohesion and political conflict. Acta Sociol. 58(4):311-28

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“…;Erikson 2015; Laurison 2016). Representational inequality can in turn generate class differences in political behavior, including differences in the likelihood of participating at all in the electoral process or of resorting to protest(Solt 2008; Weaver and Lerman 2010;Hooker 2016;Evans & Tilley 2017;Green & McElwee 2019;Schäfer & Schwander 2019). Thus in this section we also discuss the behavioral consequences (e.g., voting or non-voting) of class differences in views about the political system.Martin Gilens (2012) provides the most thorough documentation to date of the relationship between income, policy preferences, and policy decisions, finding that actual policy supported by both Democrats and Republicans responds mainly to the preferences of affluent citizens in those instances in which preferences diverge by class.…”

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“…The debate over changes in partisan identification in the U.S. offers another instructive example: partisan polarization is increasingly construed as an in-group versus out-group identity dynamic(Iyengar et al 2019), whereas others have shown that opposition to all flavors of partisanship has grown and is rooted in a general distrust of politics(Klar et al 2018). 10 By contrast, an example of conservative party mobilization of non-college-educated white men and women would be Donald Trump's use of a distinct fusion of class, racial/ethnic, and gender/sexual interests and identities(Gest 2016;McCall & Orloff 2017;Green & McElwee 2019).…”

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Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies

Lindh

McCall

2020

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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In many high-income countries today, scholarly interest in the politics of class has coincided with growing economic inequality, rising support for nonmainstream political parties and candidates, and increasing flows of immigration. We review social science research on the views of different class segments vis-à-vis economic, political, and sociocultural issues, finding greater scholarly attention to the interdependence of economic, social, and political concerns and preferences than arguably was the case even a few years ago. Our main aim is to synthesize and critically evaluate this rapidly expanding literature, but we also provide empirical data on class differences and similarities in political opinion across 18 countries, and we pinpoint several areas of research that are in need of further empirical, methodological, and theoretical inquiry. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 46 is July 30, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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The Differential Effects of Economic Conditions and Racial Attitudes in the Election of Donald Trump

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The politics hypothesis and racial disparities in infants’ health in the United States

The politics hypothesis and racial disparities in infants’ health in the United States

Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies

Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies

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