Can one's political ideology influence one's health? Aggregate studies correlating average voting patterns with average mortality levels, 1–4 or average health dissatisfaction , 3 suggest that mortality tends to be lower in areas where the majority vote for the party with conservative political orientation. This finding has usually been presented as reflecting the differences in socioeconomic d...

IMPORTANCE Few current data are available regarding the political behavior of American physicians as the number of female physicians has increased and the number of solo practitioners has decreased. OBJECTIVE To analyze campaign contributions that physicians made from the 1991 to 1992 through the 2011 to 2012 election cycles to Republican and Democratic candidates in presidential and congress...

Several studies of the post-war American political economy find that Democratic presidents have been more successful than Republicans. Most recently, Bartels (2008) found that economic growth had been greater and that unemployment and income inequality had been lower under Democratic presidents since 1948. If true, these findings combined with the frequent success of Republicans in presidential...

One-third of women in the UK will have an abortion before their 45th birthday. Yet midwife’s role pregnancy choice counselling, provision and support women’s decisions remains a taboo. This opinion piece calls for open conversation around termination better understanding among midwives as medical procedure. Recognising global impact unsafe abortion, author rallies midwifery profession to take c...

I read the commentary1 on ‘Abortion law: campaign groups and the quest for change’ in the October 2006 issue of the Journal with interest. In general, it provides a very balanced overview of the different groups seeking change in UK abortion legislation, summarising the concerns of both pro-life and pro-choice organisations. However, in his discussion and conclusions, Dr Vincent Argent ceases t...

Previous research has shown that perceivers can accurately extract information about perceptually ambiguous group memberships from facial information alone. For example, people demonstrate above-chance accuracy in categorizing political ideology from faces. Further, they ascribe particular personality traits to faces according to political party (e.g., Republicans are dominant and mature, Democ...

ABSTRACT: This chapter seeks to advance our understanding of local government ordinances on issues related to unauthorized immigrant residents including day labor markets, housing, unlicensed businesses, and cooperation with federal immigration authorities. We attempt to answer the question of why such ordinances are considered, passed, or fail to pass in some municipalities and not others. Som...

The operations of stock photographs, as utilised by the Irish anti-abortion lobby, have not been examined before. Many ‘Vote No’ posters in 2018 referendum campaign on 8th amendment maintained a visual and textual focus foetal personhood: asking electorate to ‘love both,’ while deploying range photographs. In this article, I trace specific images used against Repeal back their online image bank...

We develop a simple model in which voters care about both economic and “cultural” policy (noneconomic issues such as abortion). Democrats and Republicans are ideologically differentiated and choose economic policy positions to maximize their respective probability of winning. Voters who are culturally and economically conservative or liberal strongly prefer one of the parties, while the boundar...