What is the Norway Model? Mode of Affiliation or Political Compromise?

Political party affiliation, political ideology and mortality.

BACKGROUND Ecological and cross-sectional studies have indicated that conservative political ideology is associated with better health. Longitudinal analyses of mortality are needed because subjective assessments of ideology may confound subjective assessments of health, particularly in cross-sectional analyses. METHODS Data were derived from the 2008 General Social Survey-National Death Inde...

What is political?

l1lere is no widely agreed upon definition of what is political. A definition that seems fruitful is to hold that political processes concern bridging power differences with s0ciety with those within the state, bridges that carry inputs both from society to the state (e.g., the results of elections) and from the state to society (e.g., Presidential speeches; legislation). l1le political realm a...

What Is Political Economy?

How does politics affect economic outcomes? This question has been asked probably as long as people have been interested in economics itself. Ž From Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations in 1776 or perhaps the Physiocrats . even earlier until at least John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy in 1848, what we now call ‘‘economics’’ was in fact generally referred to as ‘‘political economy.’’ T...

Abortion and political compromise.

What is the Real Cause of Glaucoma?

Introduction: The term glaucoma refers to a group of diseases that have a characteristic optic neuropathy with associated visual field loss in common. Intraocular pressure has been considered to be the only causal factor for glaucoma and the only factor that can be manipulated to alter the course of the disease. But considering high intraocular pressure as the only factor responsible for glauco...