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By Lawrence R. Jacobs. 259 pp. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1993. $34.50. ISBN 0-8014-2761-4.

Public opinion, systematically sampled in polls, mattered a great deal to makers of health policy in Britain in the 1940s and in the United States in the 1960s, according to Lawrence R. Jacobs. "Political struggles," caused mainly by doctors, he writes, "heightened state actors' sensitivity to public opinion and their willingness to make authoritative choices among alternative principles and administrative arrangements."

Jacobs has three purposes in writing this book. The first is to describe and compare how officials made decisions about policy on the basis of data from systematic polling in Britain and the United States. Although he acknowledges the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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