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The Affordable Care Act and Polarization in the United States

Julianna Pacheco, Jake Haselswerdt, Jamila Michener
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences July 2020, 6 (2) 114-130; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.2.05
Julianna Pacheco
aAssociate professor of political science at the University of Iowa
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Jake Haselswerdt
bAssistant professor of public policy and administration at the University of Missouri
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Jamila Michener
cAssistant professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University
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    ACA Partisan Polarization Across the Fifty States from Q4 2009 to Q2 2016

    Source: Authors’ calculations.

    Note: Higher values indicate more polarization in attitudes among partisans. Estimates are calculated using multilevel regression, imputation, and poststratification.

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    Marginal Effects of Gubernatorial Announcements on Affordable Care Act Support

    Source: Authors’ calculations.

    Note: Support is among partisans at the state level (with 95% confidence intervals).

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Julianna Pacheco, Jake Haselswerdt, Jamila Michener
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jul 2020, 6 (2) 114-130; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2020.6.2.05

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jul 2020, 6 (2) 114-130; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2020.6.2.05
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    • MISALIGNED PARTISAN ENVIRONMENTS
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