GPs with special interests

GPs with special interests - impacting on complex diabetes care.

BACKGROUND The growing prevalence and impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus is of international concern. OBJECTIVE This article describes an innovative model of complex diabetes care, delivered by advanced skill general practitioners supported by an endocrinologist and diabetes educator within a general practice setting. DISCUSSION Initial evaluation suggests a trend to better glycaemic contro...

Update on special interests and focused practices.

How Special Interests Shape Policy A Survey

This paper surveys recent approaches towards lobbying if interest groups influence the decision of an incumbent government. It describes the two main channels of influence which mainly exist in parallel, namely contribution payments and the transmission of information through lobbying. Recent extensions to the two basic lobbying models are discussed in great detail. Thereafter follows a short o...

Electoral concerns, special interests and illegal immigration

In 2006 illegal immigrants represented four percent of the total number of US residents, and comparable figures hold also for other advanced destination countries. If governments are not able or willing to stick to their “official” immigration policy, why do they set such policies in the first place? The purpose of this paper is to address this apparent puzzle, by developing a political agency ...

Protecting special interests in the name of "good science".

WITHOUT FANFARE OR DEBATE, A MEMBER OF Congress places a rider on the omnibus appropriations bill enacted at the end of the Clinton Administration in late 2000. A new 2-sentence law, now known as the Data Quality Act (DQA), directs the administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide a potent mechanism for interested parties to change the way government agencies review science....