We review the 1992 policy choices in California for expanding health insurance coverage, focusing on the rejection of an employer mandate by legislators and voters. We analyze how interest-group politics, gubernatorial politics, and national politics shaped those choices. Although public opinion and the shift of organized medicine showed considerable support for extending health insurance cover...

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In their introduction to The laboratorv revolution in medicine the editors make a relatively unassailable case for the significance of the laboratory in modern medicine. Although "revolutionary" is possibly an unhelpful term, they argue that the "transition" to laboratory medicine was as revolutionary as "the transition to hospital medicine which preceded it" (p. 3). To substantiate this claim ...

Americans have great expectations for science. They expect research to solve practical problems such as disease and slow internet connections. But there’s a bemusing expectation that research can also resolve moral and ethical dilemmas. Consider stem cells. Hardly a week goes by these days without a flurry of reports about one medical advance or another using stem cells. Cures for diabetes, Par...

Corn ethanol production is central in the United States' agrofuels initiatives. In this paper I discuss corn ethanol production in Iowa, USA and examine several dynamics: farmers' positions in agrofuel supply chains; struggles around the construction and operation of agrofuel refineries; the politics of ethanol production and regulation; and the ecological consequences of increased corn product...

This paper investigates the interaction of perceived accountability on the politics perceptions-job stress relationship. From a sample of working adults, findings indicate that (1) individuals perceiving organizational politics and high levels of accountability reported more quality concern stress and job vs. non-job conflict, and (2) individuals perceiving organizational politics and low level...

This Article discusses the concept of judicial independence, the political nature of the courts, and efforts to insulate the courts from the ordinary politics engulfing the popularly elected branches. It reviews Florida’s political history and changing political landscape. It traces the development of the state’s judicial selection processes and ties them to current legislation being considered...

This paper is based on a research aimed at investigating celebrity politics using the emerging theories on celebrity capital in the context of an emerging democracy or third wave democracy, Ghana. The research focuses on the role of celebrity endorsement in the 2008 and 2012 election campaigns in Ghana to explore the mechanism of celebrity politics and capital in Ghana. The main aim of this pap...