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Legislator voting and behavioral science theory: a systematic review
Gregory J Tung1, Jon S Vernick, Erin V Reiney
1The Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. gtung@jhsph.edu
Objectives:
To examine the application of behavioral science theories to explain the voting behavior of legislators for public health policies.
Methods:
We conducted a systematic review to identify studies that examined factors associated with legislator support, intention to vote, or actual votes on public health policies, emphasizing those grounded in behavior science theory.
Results:
Twenty-one papers met our inclusion criteria, and 6 were explicitly grounded in a behavioral science theory.
Conclusions:
Behavioral science theories, and the theory of planned behavior in particular, provide a framework for understanding legislator voting behavior and can be used by advocates to advance pro-health policies.
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