Participatory Reactions to Policy Threats: Senior Citizens and the Defense of Social Security and Medicare
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Summary
Newly available individual-level time-series data are used to show surges in senior citizen letter writing in response to threats to Social Security and Medicare during the 1980s.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2003-03-01
- Cited by
- 130
- References
- 43
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Keywords
Citizen journalism, Variation (astronomy), Political science, Social security, Public relations
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- Ideology and discontent
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- SELF-INTEREST AND PUBLIC OPINION TOWARD SMOKING RESTRICTIONS AND CIGARETTE TAXES
- Can Government Regulate Safety? The Coal Mine Example
- Entitlements and the Elderly: Protecting Promises, Recognizing Reality
- Beyond self-interest
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- The politics of ageing in England: insights from interviews with older people
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- Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies: A Cross-National Comparison of 29 OECD Countries
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- Policy feedback in transitional China: The sectoral divide and electoral participation.
- Politik einer alternden Gesellschaft: Vom Generationenvertrag zum Generationenkonflikt?
- Returning Attention to Policy Content in Diffusion Study
- Does Age(ing) Really Matter? Modeling and Testing the Impact of Age on Public Pensions Preferences
- The Fourth Branch of Government: The Role of Interest Groups, the Media, and Political Advertisements in Contemporary Health Policy Debates
- How Discrimination Impacts Sociopolitical Behavior: A Multidimensional Perspective
- Social Security, Retirement, and the Single-Mindedness of the Electorate
- Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality: New Stylized Facts and Some Tentative Explanations
- Technological Innovation and Policy Responses in Health Care
- Citizen Participation and Congressional Responsiveness: New Evidence that Participation Matters
- Policy Feedback and Preschool Funding in the American States
- Fiscal protest in thirteen welfare states
- Czech Exceptionalism? A Comparative Political Economy Interpretation of Post-Communist Policy Pathways, 1989-2004
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