...Clark C. Havighurst The so-called state action doctrine is a judicially created formula for resolving conflicts between federal antitrust policy and state policies that seem to authorize conduct that antitrust law would prohibit. Against the background of recent commentaries by the federal...

...Sylvia N. Tesh Phil Brown and Edwin J. Mikkelsen. No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990. 260 pp. $24.95 cloth. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Reviews 181 Phil Brown and Edwin 1. Mikkelsen...

...Rongal D. Nikora; Deborah R. McFarlane World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health . Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2008. 246 pp. $40.00 paper, or free at...

...William S. Brewbaker, III The state action doctrine receives relatively little attention in the Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice 2004 report on competition in the health care sector. Not surprisingly, the report focuses primarily on urging states to reconsider specific laws that tend...

... ). Nelson ( 2004 : 32) finds, for instance, across seven country cases that “external attempts to prompt specific actions had a rather limited impact [on health-sector reform], despite the substantial influence . . . of broader international intellectual currents on reform debate and government agendas...

...Richard J. Bogue; Mazda Antia; Rita Harmata; Claude H. Hall, Jr. In the United States, health system change occurs as the interaction of politics and policies is played out and pushed forward by individuals and organizations taking action in their local communities and markets. This article...

.... Arnold , R. Douglas . 1990 . The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Baumgartner , Frank R. , and Bryan D. Jones. 1993 . Agendas and Instability in American Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Belkin , Gary S. 1997 . The Technocratic Wish...

...Ran Coble Eli Ginzberg, Edith M. Davis, and Miriam Ostow, and associates, Local Health Policy in Action (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985), 136 pp., $28.50. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 194 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law costs of installing [hearing...

... nature, extent, and impact of those changes. This paper examines several monitoring efforts in maternal and child health and recommends additional action at the state level to meet urgent information requirements. Copyright © 1983 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1983...

...Karen Gutermuth Previous research has heightened the debate over what motivates the American Medical Political Action Committee (AMPAC), the campaign financing arm of the American Medical Association (AMA). Analyses of roll call votes typically assume that vote-buying is the reason AMPAC...

... the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Prometheus Revisited: Popular Myths, Medical Realities, and Legislative Actions Concerning Death Carla Dowben, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas Abstract. Natural Death Acts have been enacted in...

... state actions. We present evidence from six states that enacted major pieces of health care legislation in the late 1980s or early 1990s: Massachusetts, Oregon, Florida, Minnesota, Vermont, and Washington State. The variation in design casts doubt on the proposition that states can invent plans and...

...Charlene Harrington; Julie Stockton; Sarah Hooper Abstract This article examines the effects of state regulation and civil class action litigation on corporate compliance with nurse staffing and quality standards, corporate strategies to manage staffing and quality, and corporate financial status...

...Vanessa Northington Gamble; Deborah Stone What is the relationship between scientific research and government action in addressing health inequalities in the United States? What factors increase the impact of scientific research on public policy? To answer these questions, we focus on racial and...

... paid by general practitioners, ophthalmologists, and orthopedic surgeons during 1974–78. The empirical results of the study presented here give no indication that individual state legislative actions, or actions taken collectively, had their intended effects on premiums. Several explanations for this...

... implement these counterproductive policies. We note the importance of the policy's symbolic framing—that is, as establishing sanctions against illegal immigration—in congressional passage during a period of rising nativism in Congress and the nation. The regulatory actions reflected the ideological...

...Darren Grant; Kelly C. Alfred This article descriptively assesses how physicians are disciplined by state medical boards throughout the United States, drawing on a nationwide database of sanctions delivered during the period 1994-2002. We identify the frequency and severity of disciplinary actions...

...-regulation to coregulation. Yet there are notable differences in each country that cannot be explained solely by diverging institutional contexts. They also result from the strategic actions by the actors involved. Based on an assessment of the recent literature on institutional transformation, this article...