Social Justification and Political Legitimacy by Luis Antonio Vila-Henninger

Author:Luis Antonio Vila-Henninger
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030517168
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

(b)Partisan Affiliation: As is often the case for DDEPs, partisan elites did not provide clear cues for how voters should align Proposition 202 (2008) with partisanship. The chair of the ballot measure committee “Stop Illegal Hiring Prop 202” was Andrew Pacheco—a former Assistant US Attorney with a history of endorsements from Arizona state Republican politicians. For example, in 2010, Pacheco was recruited by Arizona’s right-wing Attorney General Tom Horne. Conversely, Proposition 202 (2008) was officially opposed by an anti-immigration ideological group (RidersUSA) and several local-level Republican groups (Maricopa Country Republican Committee and LD 9 Republican Executive Committee)—but not by any individual politicians. This division between conservative supporters and opponents shows a rift within the Republican Party between ideological groups and business interests.

While partisan elites did not provide clear cues for how to interpret the measure, the proposition’s rhetoric did. Research has established that anti-immigrant rhetoric formalized in policy creates or intensifies public anti-immigrant sentiment (Flores 2017). Furthermore, the Republican affiliation and conservative ideological nature of the themes and language used in the measure’s rhetoric has long been established (Santa Ana 2002; Fox 2004; Jacobson 2008; Rosenblum and Gorman 2010; Hopkins 2010; Kubrin et al. 2012; Brown 2013; Sohoni and Sohoni 2014; Steil and Vasi 2014; Flores 2017; Flores and Schachter 2018). Thus, in the absence of clear partisan cues by elites, as well as the history of the use of the rhetoric employed by this measure in the public speech of Republican partisan elites and in Republican policy, the rhetoric of this measure cued Republican voters to support the measure and Democratic voters to oppose the measure. It is important to note that because this book analyzes forms of political and economic ideology that are shared by segments of voters, and are subsequently used by said voters in their (de)legitimations of a given measure, ideological cues in the wording of the proposition on the ballot and in the summary I used as an interview prompt were the most important partisan elements of a DDEP for this study.

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