Ideology and the Tax Revolt: Florida's Amendment 1

A number of researchers have concluded that the tax revolt is motivated by an antigovernment ideology which is distributed diffusely in the mass public. However, public opinion on Florida's Amendment 1 was fragmented into a number of separate issue publics, with different sets of voters expressing different concerns. The implication of this finding is that prevailing interpretations of the tax revolt have overestimated the role of ideology.