The Politics of Disgust by Hancock Ange-Marie;

Author:Hancock, Ange-Marie;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2004-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

TABLE 4.6

Text Code Overlap: Public Identity and Consensus for Welfare Reform

We begin again with the notion that Public Identity (and the widespread, if unintentional, subscription to its tenets) is really a proxy for Consensus for Welfare Reform. Table 4.6 examines this proposition and, as with the media data set, overlapping codes between the dimensions of each variable are nearly nonexistent, despite the increased number of text units coded at Consensus for Welfare Reform. The five units of overlap between Culture of Poverty and Bipartisan Support represents 6% of the total units coded at Consensus for Welfare Reform and 3% of those coded at Public Identity. Thus, though the five units appear to stand out in Table 4.6, they are a very small percentage of either variable’s total text units.

Similarly, the amount of overlap between Consensus for Welfare Reform and Policy Options is very small; only 40% of the cells have any text units at all, with the largest concentration collecting on the policy option of Workfare (see Table 4.7). The Consensus for Welfare Reform among the American Public supports the idea that welfare reform policy follows the logic of direct representation, but again the 9 text units represent a very small percentage of the 390 total text units coded for Policy Options (2%). This is a miniscule level of overlap, as is the association (of the same 9 units) with the 112 total text units coded for workfare (8%). For the five text units coded at Bipartisan Support, the proportions are even smaller. Following nearly identical results in two different data sets, the competing explanation of Consensus for Welfare Reform can be dismissed. Qualitative and quantitative content analyses of two random-sample data sets indicate that Consensus for Welfare Reform is neither a proxy for Public Identity nor substantially related to the Policy Options discussed for reforming welfare in 1996.

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