Report: Inform, influence, evaluate: The power of state public opinion polls

Health Affairs

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 273-276

  Turner, Shiloh ^a,b   O'Connor, Patricia ^c   Rademacher, Eric ^d  

^a Erie Community Foundation   (United States)

^b The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati   (United States)

^c Health Foundation   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC OPINION; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH POLICY; OHIO; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC OPINION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59449106255     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.1.273     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. F.R. Baumgartner and B.L. Leech, "Interest Niches and Policy Bandwagons: Patterns of Interest Group Involvement in National Politics," Journal of Politics 63, no. 4 (2001): 1191-1213.
2. J.G. Geer, "Critical Realignments and the Public Opinion Poll," Journal of Politics 53, no. 2 (1991): 434-453.
3. P. Burstein, "Why Estimates of the Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy Are Too High: Empirical and Theoretical Implications," Social Forces 84, no. 4 (2006): 2273-2289.
4. Information about the poll, including results from all four years, is available at http://www.healthfoundation.org/ohip.html.