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Paul Starr
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 83
Citations - 6114
Paul Starr is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care reform & Politics. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 80 publications receiving 6073 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Starr include Harvard University & Yale University.
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The social transformation of American medicine
TL;DR: A Sovereign ProfessionThe Rise of Medical Authority and the Shaping of the Medical System and the Social Origins of Professional Sovereignty are discussed.
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The Meaning of Privatization
TL;DR: Privatization is a fuzzy concept that evokes sharp political reactions as discussed by the authors, but it has unambiguous political origins and objectives: it emerges from the countermovement against the growth of government in the West and represents the most serious conservative effort of our time to formulate a positive alternative.
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The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
TL;DR: Starr as mentioned in this paper argues that the creation of modern communications was as much the result of political choices as of technological invention, and argues that America's critical choices in these areas affect the long-run path of development in a society and have had wide social, economic, and even military ramifications.
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The politics of numbers.
William Alonso,Paul Starr,Farley R,Allen Wr,Gérard Bouchard,Raymond Roy,Casgrain B,Miller L,Chavkin W,Busner C,McLaughlin M +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the social and political significance of decisions concerning data collection measurement interpretation and presentation and the relationship between the functions of statistics and the characteristics of democratic politics, and the connections between statistics and various levels of U.S. government.