Public Opinion, Health Policy, and American Politics

Editor's Note - Colleen M. Grogan

Editors' Introduction - Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler

Forum

Why Public Opinion Changes: The Implications for Health and Health Policy - Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler

Motivated Reasoning and Public Opinion - April A. Strickland, Charles S. Taber, and Milton Lodge

The Dynamics of Health Care Opinion, 2008 – 2010: Partisanship, Self-Interest, and Racial Resentment - Michael Henderson and D. Sunshine Hillygus

Policy Feedbacks and the Impact of Policy Designs on Public Opinion - Andrea Louise Campbell

Missing Voices: Polling and Health Care - Adam J. Berinsky and Michele Margolis

Articles

Making the Best of Hard Times: How the Nation's Economic Circumstances Shaped the Public's Embrace of Health Care Reform - Mark Schlesinger

Red State, Blue State, Flu State: Media Self-Selection and Partisan Gaps in Swine Flu Vaccinations - Matthew A. Baum

Who Deserves Health Care? The Effects of Causal Attributions and Group Cues on Public Attitudes about Responsibility for Health Care Costs - Sarah E. Gollust and Julia Lynch

Report from the States

Regional Variations in Public Opinion on the Affordable Care Act - Mollyann Brodie, Claudia Deane, and Sarah Cho

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index to Volume 36