The Health of Nations : : Public Opinion and the Making of American and British Health Policy / / Lawrence R. Jacobs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Jacobs, Lawrence R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

We have come to assume that as ordinary citizens we have little influence on public policy, yet we know that politicians rely on pollsters for a direct sense of our concerns. Do we have more power than we think?In The Health of Nations, Lawrence R. Jacobs compares the impact of public opinion on two...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• PART I. Theoretical and Empirical Contexts
• 1. Institutions and Culture
• 2. Policymakers’ Sensitivity toward Public Opinion
• 3. Public Understandings of the State and Health Care
• PART II. The Health Care Debate Moves to the Mainstream
• 4. Britain, 1930s—1942: Reform Becomes Practical Politics
• 5. United States, 1950s—1960: Medicare and Presidential Campaigning
• PART III. A Search for Consensus
• 6. Britain, 1942—1945: Aftermath of the Beveridge Report
• 7. United States, 1960—1964: Kennedy’s Inauguration and Johnson’s Succession
• PART IV. Bold Innovation in Ongoing Policy Discussions
• 8. Britain, 1945—1946: The Labour Government and the National Health Service Act
• 9. United States, 1964—1965: Johnson, the 89th Congress, and the Medicare Act
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index