Issue Salience, Party Strength, and the Adoption of Health-Care Expansion Efforts

Politics and Policy

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-159

  Bernick, Ethan M ^a   Myers, Nathan ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elections; Health care; Health policy; Issue salience; Political ideology; Political parties; Public policy; United States; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857279047     PISSN: 15555623     EISSN: 17471346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2011.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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