Security Awareness and the Climate of Public Opinion. An Analysis of Recent Trends.

Introduction

The Historical Review/La Revue Historique ◽

10.12681/hr.27088 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 ◽

pp. 9

Author(s):

Katerina Gardikas

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Public Opinion ◽

Medical History ◽

Social Medicine ◽

Social Relevance ◽

Health History ◽

Public Health History ◽

History Of ◽

Recent Trends

This collection of articles was conceived long before the outbreak and worldwide spread of Covid-19. It was intended as a review of recent trends in the writing of modern medical history in Greece thanks to the broader social relevance of public health history. While it still represents current ideas on the history of health and medicine among its Greek practitioners, it appears, nonetheless, at a time when public opinion has put the notions of public health, contagion and governance into sharp relief as societies are being overwhelmed by insecurity and a primal sensation of fear. Thus, public health and social medicine have entered the historiographical limelight.

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What Is the Matter with Europe?

10.1093/oso/9780198793380.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Catherine E. De Vries

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

European Integration ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

Eurozone Crisis ◽

Economic Interests ◽

Member States ◽

European Public ◽

Recent Trends

The recent rise in Euroscepticism gives rise to important empirical puzzles that present difficulties for existing theories of public opinion towards European integration that highlight economic interests or communal identities. For example, why is support for Eurosceptic parties the most pronounced in countries that have weathered the Eurozone crisis fairly well, and much lower in countries that have been hardest hit? This chapter provides an overview of the empirical puzzles associated with the recent trends in Euroscepticism, outlines how existing theoretical explanations struggle to deal with them, and explains how a benchmark theory of European public opinion can help. The chapter argues that public opinion towards European integration resembles a kaleidoscope mirroring people’s experiences with and evaluations of the starkly different national, political, and economic conditions within the member states.

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Recent Trends in Institutional Confidence Among Arkansans: Updating Earlier Findings

American Review of Politics ◽

10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1985.6.0.84-92 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 84-92

Author(s):

Robert L. Savage ◽

William R. Darden

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Regional Differences ◽

The State ◽

Public Confidence ◽

Recent Trends ◽

Confidence Data

In a study reporting on regional differences in public opinion among Arkansans in 1982, Savage and Blair (1984: 65) assert "that more altruistic, less remote, and more decentralized institutions receive stronger votes of confidence." Data from a 1984 survey of Arkansans do not contradict that assertion but do allow an assessment of trends in public confidence among citizens of the state during the early 1980’s as well as affording comparisons with confidence trends in the nation as a whole and in a sister state located in the industrial northeast.

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