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Describes how EU health policy has been developed. This book discusses how EU policy is influenced by lobbies in Brussels and by four big member states: France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. It is suitable for students of EU policy and politics, as well as health policy makers

This timely book explores how changing territorial politics are impacting on social citizenship rights across the UK.

Intro -- Nationalism and Self-Government -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Autonomy and Its Explanations -- 2. Two Stateless Nations: Scotland and Catalonia -- Part I. Politics -- 3. Scotland 1960-1979: The Road to Nowhere -- 4. Scotland 1979-1997:Centralization and Backlash -- 5. Catalonia 1975-1980: Compelling Autonomy -- 6. Catalonia 1980-2000 -- Part II. Policies -- 7. Shaping Autonomous Scotland: The Scotland Office and Scotland Acts -- 8. Constructing Catalonia: Policy Sectors and the Politics of Competencies -- 9. Will they stay or will they go? -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Brings together experts from six countries to ask what territorial decentralization does and what it means for democracy, policymaking and the welfare state. The authors analyze the successes, the generalizable ideas, and the international lessons in the study of comparative territorial politics

Since so few people appear knowledgeable about public affairs, one might question whether collective policy preferences revealed in opinion surveys accurately convey the distribution of voices and interests in a society. This study, the first comprehensive treatment of the relationship between knowledge, representation, and political equality in opinion surveys, suggests some surprising answers. Knowledge does matter, and the way it is distributed in society can cause collective preferences to reflect disproportionately the opinions of some groups more than others. Sometimes collective preferences seem to represent something like the will of the people, but frequently they do not. Sometimes they rigidly enforce political equality in the expression of political viewpoints, but often they do not. The primary culprit is not any inherent shortcoming in the methods of survey research. Rather, it is the limited degree of knowledge held by ordinary citizens about public affairs. Accounting for these factors can help better appreciate thepossibilities for using opinion polls to represent the people's voice

The problem of origins -- American pragmatism -- The colonial attitude -- American progress -- The indigenous attitude -- Welcoming the cannibals -- The logic of place -- "This very ground" -- Science and sovereignty -- The logic of home -- Feminism and pragmatism.