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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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