Public opinion on health care reform

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Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Gelman, Andrew ^a   Lee, Daniel ^a   Ghitza, Yair ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care; Multilevel regression; Poststratification; Public opinion

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952126964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15408884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1355     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. In early 2006, my daughter Karen decided that the upcoming congressional elections had promise as political drama and thus as an independent film project. It was not clear at first how interesting the story would be, much less what kind of title would be appropriate. As it turned out, the story was very interesting indeed, and she ended up calling the film "Housequake."
2. See www.housequakethefilm.com.
3. Jeffrey R. Biggs and Thomas S. Foley, Honor in the House: Speaker Tom Foley (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1999), p. 199.
4. See David E. Price, "Reflections on Congressional Government at 120 and Congress at 216, " PS: Political Science and Politics, 57 (April, 2006), pp. 231-32.
5. th" (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 2009).
6. th Congress, " The Forum, 6 (2008), p. 14.
7. Quoted in Ibid., p 7.
8. The term is David Mayhew's, who described the two committees (plus Rules) in 1974 as "delicately arranged to contribute to institutional maintenance." Congress: The Electoral Connection (New Haven: Yale University Press), p. 149.
9. Richard Fenno's classic account of appropriations in the 1947-1962 period noted that House appropriations bills were normally debated without a rule but did not treat this as a variable of any importance in determining the committee's influence or legitimacy. There was no reason to question the practice, for the Committee already had an extraordinary ability to protect its bills on the floor-an ability rooted in procedural advantages (for example, the absence of roll-call votes in the Committee of the Whole) and strong institutional norms which deterred most challenges or rendered them futile. See The Power of the Purse: Appropriations Politics in Congress (Boston: Little, Brown, 1966), chap. 9.