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Book Review: Britain and Ireland: The News and Public Opinion: Media Effects on Civic Life

over-predicting the crisis of the welfare state in the West while under-predicting its collapse in the East’ (p. 203). Marmor has a more conventional academic style with more tables, diagrams and footnotes (171 in one article). My favourite piece is his demolition of fads and fashions, particularly the ‘linguistic muddle’ of managed care with slogans with antonyms of no appeal, no credibility or null category (pp. 162–3). This text brings together in a convenient collection some more or less accessible sources (book chapters, some less familiar journals). The introductory chapters could be useful for students, and all would benefit from reading (or re-reading) the material here. However, there is limited new material (ch. 2 on ‘What’s Special about Health Care’, brief introductions to the chapters and a brief ‘coda’). I would have liked to see more reflection, perhaps with the authors critically reflecting on each other’s work. Nevertheless, the ‘conceptual precision and verbal clarity’ (p. 540) perfectly illustrate the art and craft of policy analysis as applied to health care.