id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt xk81jh37c1b Kevin Estep Opting Out: How Political Context, Political Ideology, and Individualistic Parenting Contribute to Vaccine Refusal in California, 2000-2015 1904 .txt text/plain 271 12 35 This dissertation addresses three important puzzles related to vaccine refusal: How can we explain the sharp increase in vaccine refusals over the past 15 years? I conclude that the combination of increased residential segregation by political orientation, higher rates of PBEs in Republican contexts, and electoral pressures on Republican lawmakers to relax compulsory vaccination laws could lead to dangerously low vaccination rates in communities where most residents share neoliberal conservative values. cache/xk81jh37c1b.txt txt/xk81jh37c1b.txt