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Life Sciences
Study data from University of Pennsylvania update understanding of life sciences
May 17th, 2008
"This article reconsiders the importance of including policy issue content and legislative significance in our study of lawmaking. Specifically, it demonstrates theoretically why lawmaking might vary by policy substance and empirically shows how incorrect conclusions would be drawn if lawmaking is studied by pooling enactments instead of disaggregating laws by policy issue content," investigators in the United States report. "It accomplishes this by bringing new tools, including a policy classification system and a way to measure the significance of public laws, to help overcome an array of measurement-related problems that have stymied our ability to better understand...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-05-17)
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