U.S. Senate voting on health and safety regulation: the effects of ideology and interest-group orientations.
Ideological and interest-group influences attempt to influence policy formulation during the legislative process. In health and safety policy-making these interest-group influences, which are some of the best organized groups, are related to ideological and interest-group orientations of the legislators themselves. The authors analyzed Senate health care voting in the 95th U.S. Congress. General ideology, structured along the left-right dimension was important, but it was not the overriding factor. The senators voted as supporters or opponents of environmentalism as much or even more than as adherents of either liberal or conservative beliefs.
D000056:Accident Prevention; D004782:Environmental Health; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011057:Politics; D012449:Safety; D014481:United States