Public opinion,or popular opinion,is the collective opinion on a specific topic or voting intention relevant to society. It is the people's views on matters affecting them. The term originates from France,and first appeared in the 17th century,though writers had identified the importance of the opinion of the people long before this. Prior to the advent of mass media,public fora such as coffee houses and gentlemen's clubs were used as exchanges of opinion and some reputable locations had great influence.
"Harry and Louise" was a $14 to $20 million year-long television advertising campaign funded by the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA) –a predecessor organization which merged into the AHIP –a health insurance industry lobby group,that ran intermittently from September 8,1993,to September 1994 in opposition to the Clinton health care plan of 1993 and Congressional health care reform proposals in 1994. Fourteen television ads and radio and print advertising depicted a fictional suburban forty-something middle-class married couple,portrayed by actors Harry Johnson and Louise Caire Clark,despairing over bureaucratic and other aspects of health care reform plans and urging viewers to contact their representatives in Congress. The commercials were ordered by HIAA president Bill Gradison and HIAA executive vice president Chip Kahn,and created by California public relations consultants Ben Goddard and Rick Claussen of Goddard Claussen.
Theda Skocpol is an American sociologist and political scientist,who is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. She is best known as an advocate of the historical-institutional and comparative approaches,as well as her "state autonomy theory". She has written widely for both popular and academic audiences. She has been President of the American Political Science Association and the Social Science History Association.
Wellness is a state beyond absence of illness but rather aims to optimize well-being.
The priming theory states that media images stimulate related thoughts in the minds of audience members.
Paul Pierson is an American professor of political science specializing in comparative politics and holder of the John Gross Endowed Chair of Political Science at the University of California,Berkeley. From 2007-2010 he served at UC Berkeley as Chair of the Department of Political Science. He is noted for his research on comparative public policy and political economy,the welfare state,and American political development. His works on the welfare state and historical institutionalism have been characterized as influential.
The United States spends approximately $2.3 trillion on federal and state social programs include cash assistance,health insurance,food assistance,housing subsidies,energy and utilities subsidies,and education and childcare assistance. Similar benefits are sometimes provided by the private sector either through policy mandates or on a voluntary basis. Employer-sponsored health insurance is an example of this.
The history of health care reform in the United States has spanned many decades with health care reform having been the subject of political debate since the early part of the 20th century. Recent reforms remain an active political issue. Alternative reform proposals were offered by both of the major candidates in the 2008,2016,and 2020 presidential elections.
This bibliography of Barack Obama is a list of written and published works,both books and films,about Barack Obama,the 44th president of the United States.
The 1920 United States elections was held on November 2. In the aftermath of World War I,the Republican Party re-established the dominant position it lost in the 1910 and 1912 elections. This was the first election after the ratification of the 19th Amendment,which granted women the constitutional right to vote.
Margaret M. Weir is an American political scientist and sociologist,best known for her work on social policy and the politics of poverty in the United States,particularly at the levels of state and local government.
Vanessa Northington Gamble is a physician who chaired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee in 1996.
Organ futures is the short term used in academic proposals for futures contracts on organs from human cadavers. They are not legal anywhere at this time.
Health politics or politics of health is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with the analysis of social and political power over the health status of individuals.
Vence L. Bonham Jr. is an American lawyer who is the acting Deputy Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the U. S. National Institutes of Health,and is the leader of the NHGRI Health Disparities Unit. His research focuses on social determinants of health,particularly with regard to the social implications of new genomic knowledge and technologies.
The TRIPS Agreement waiver is a joint intervention communication by South Africa and India to the TRIPS council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 2 October 2020.
Yuen Yuen Ang is a Singaporean professor of political science and author of two books:How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016),named one of the "Best Books of 2017" by Foreign Affairs,and China's Gilded Age (2020). She is the Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University.
Robert Y. Shapiro is an American political scientist specializing in public opinion polling and statistical methods. He is the Wallace S. Sayre professor of government at Columbia University. He is the chair of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University,president of the Academy of Political Science,editor of the Political Science Quarterly,and a former acting director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia.
James N. Druckman is an American political scientist who was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.
Wendy E. Parmet is an American legal analyst,author,professor of law at Northeastern University,and faculty director for its Center for Health Policy and Law.
