This paper empirically evaluates whether government ideology and electoral motives influenced the growth of public health expenditures in 18 OECD countries over the 1971-2004 period. The results suggest that incumbents behaved opportunistically and increased the growth of public health expenditures in election years. Government ideology did not have an influence. These findings indicate (1) the...

Design as scholarship or scholarship of design? ‘‘No’’ to a forced choice of ideology but ‘‘yes’’ to a new model of architectural critical theory. These twinned aspirations of scholarship are frozen by ideological mandates that control signification and visualization. First, we must understand how ideology creates metaphors in teaching and research; then, we must spatialize this same logic to s...

More than 130 prominent Canadian physicians, scientists and public health professionals have endorsed this commentary. They are listed at: C ONSIDER THE FOLLOWING HYPOTHETICAL scenario. An innovative new intervention for people with diabetes is developed. Health Canada provides funding to a highly accomplished group of academic health scientists, who have no financial conflicts of interest with...

A theory of ideology and point of view is articulated and a method for detecting the point(s) of view represented in a news story is described. A version of the method, actor-role analysis, is encoded in a computer program, SpinDoctor, which can automatically detect the point(s) of view represented in some news stories. Results obtained by testing SpinDoctor on a corpus of news stories are repo...

News consumption is moving online. If this move fundamentally changes how news is produced and consumed it will have important ramifications for politics. In this chapter we formulate a model of the supply and demand of news online that is motivated by descriptive features of online news consumption. We estimate the demand model using a combination of microdata and aggregate moments from a pane...

individual subsume the workers, women, and nonwhites who are also persons—even if, admittedly, they were not historically recognized as such? I think the problem here is a failure to appreciate the nature and magnitude of the obstacles to the cognitive rethinking required, and the mistaken move— especially easy for analytic philosophers, used to the effortless manipulation of variables, the shi...

Professionalism is a key concept in the sociologies of work, occupations, professions and organizations. But professionalism is changing and being changed. The article considers the different ways in which professionalism has been and is currently being interpreted. Beginning with a section on defining the field and clarifying concepts, the second section examines the concept of professionalism...

Invited to give the 2000 Rick Turner Memorial Lecture, I pondered the following question: What explains the fact that the sincere thought of a brilliant and heroic person such as Turner can appear preposterous to me, if bad faith or scholarly ignorance on one side or the other are ruled out, as they should be in this case? I address this question by considering what ‘ideologies’ are from the pe...

Almost 40 years ago, evidence from large studies of adult twins and their relatives suggested that between 30 and 60% of the variance in social and political attitudes could be explained by genetic influences. However, these findings have not been widely accepted or incorporated into the dominant paradigms that explain the etiology of political ideology. This has been attributed in part to meas...