Do elected officials serve the poor on health care? Evidence from a field experiment on members of congress and state legislators
| Autor: | Thomas J. Hayes, Benjamin G. Bishin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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General Arts
021110 strategic defence & security studies Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Responsiveness state legislatures 02 engineering and technology Public administration congress 0506 political science Degree (temperature) field experiment State (polity) Political science Health care Humanities & Social Sciences 050602 political science & public administration business media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Social Science Journal. :1-17 |
| ISSN: | 1873-5355 0362-3319 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03623319.2020.1783963 |
| Popis: | To what extent do legislators respond to the poor? While extensive research demonstrates the poor are largely ignored in legislators’ policy calculations, little research examines the degree to which they discriminate against the poor with respect to providing constituency service. We examine this question using a series of correspondence experiments on both the offices of members of Congress and state legislators on the topic of health care. Consistent with previous studies we find no evidence that members of Congress discriminate by economic class and only mix edevidence that state legislators discriminate along these lines. We also find limited, but potentially important, evidence of partisan bias in service responsiveness for state legislators. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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