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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"policy attitudes"”.
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Proximity, Politics and Policy Attitudes in the North American Context
… and demographic variables to different policy attitudes. Still, the research literature has, to date, paid scant attention to how space – that is, proximity and distance to salient geographic features – influences policy attitudes. Research in political behaviour has long proceeded as …
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Consistency Among the Public's Policy Attitudes in the 1960's
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Explaining Partisan Change Among Catholics In The American Electorate
… generational differences, social status, and policy attitudes account for limited change in partisan alignment among American Catholics. The analyses expose the long-term, durable nature of partisan attachment, as older generation Catholics who register as actively committed to their religion …
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Ideological differences in the use of social class categories to organize and understand society
… conservatives’ motivations to show that social policy disagreements result in part from a fundamental difference between how liberals and conservatives attempt to organize and understand a complex and ambiguous social world with social class categories. Specifically, I first investigated whether …
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The safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency - a study of the international politics of atomic control
… energy. These negotiations reflect both the policy attitudes and diplomatic performances of the powers involved in them and the role it has been agreed the system should play in the wider field of nuclear arms control.
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The safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency - a study of the international politics of atomic control
… energy. These negotiations reflect both the policy attitudes and diplomatic performances of the powers involved in them and the role it has been agreed the system should play in the wider field of nuclear arms control.
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Racial, not rational : economic threat, symbolic racism, and affirmative action
… have debated the determinants of whites' attitudes about racialized policies such as welfare, busing, and affirmative action. While some have argued that whites formulate their positions rationally according to perceived economic threat, others have asserted that such policy attitudes are …
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Depolarizing Environmental Policy: Identities and Public Opinion on the Environment
… and on climate change in particular, have led to policy gridlock in the United States. While most Americans rely on their partisan identities to guide their policy preferences on highly polarizing issues, other non-partisan identities may also be relevant in informing environmental policy …
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The Politics of Repeal and Replace: Testing the Limits of the Affordable Care Act's Behavioral Policy Feedbacks
<p>What happens when a policy with millions of beneficiaries is threatened? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been under attack since before it was signed into law, culminating in its only legislative challenge under the Trump administration in 2017. While we know that policies like the ACA produce …
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A study of the cultural explanation of welfare: the effect of values on social policy within the welfare states
… attention on culture within the school of social policy and the development in theorising the relationship between culture and welfare. However, the cultural analysis of welfare has not been sufficiently supported by empirical evidence. Within the existing research, the causal effect of culture on …
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An exploratory study of attitudes toward African migrants and migration among students at the University of the Western Cape
… in South Africa, this study sought to explore attitudes toward migrants and immigration among a sample of students at the University of the Western Cape. Previous studies in South Africa and elsewhere have suggested that in most countries, nationals tend to hold negative attitudes toward …