Self-Interest, Symbolic Attitudes, and Support for Public Policy: A Multilevel Analysis

This paper examines the role of self-interest and symbolic attitudes as predictors of support for two domestic policy issues—guaranteed jobs and incomes and national health insurance—in the American National Election Survey (ANES) between 1972 and 2004. As was the case in 1976 when Sears, Lau, Tyler...

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Published in:Political psychology 2009-08, Vol.30 (4), p.513-537
Main Authors: Lau, Richard R., Heldman, Caroline
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Contextual effects
Elections
Emotions
Forum on: David O. Sears' Lasting Contributions to Political Psychology
Government health insurance
Guaranteed jobs
Health care industry
Health insurance
Hierarchical linear models
Indexes (Measures)
Magnitude
Moderators
Motivation
Multilevel analysis
National elections
National health insurance
Policy Analysis
Political Attitudes
Political ideologies
Political psychology
Political science
Politics
Polls & surveys
Public opinion
Public Policy
Public Support
Regression coefficients
Self interest
Social psychology
Social values
Statistical variance
Symbolic politics
Symbolism
Symbols
Unemployment
United States of America
Variables
Voting
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