The right-to-die: State policymaking and the elderly

Glick, Henry R.

doi:10.1016/0890-4065(91)90011-g

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“…Furthermore, this body of scholarship is not immune to the problem of inconsistent results or making inferences from descriptive data with-out systematic analysis. And as a leading scholar of state court politics has observed, many of the fifty-state studies now are seriously outdated (Glick 1991).…”

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Placing State Supreme Courts in State Politics

Brace

Hall²,

Langer

2001

State Politics Policy Q.

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This essay places state supreme courts in state politics by tracking some of the major lines of research on these important institutions, documenting the importance of state supreme courts, and illustrating important variations among state supreme courts on a host of factors, including docket composition, the exercise of judicial review, litigant patterns, and turnover rates. Through analyses of original data on separation-of-powers relationships in the abortion controversy, it also provides a brief empirical demonstration of how courts influence and are influenced by the political and policy processes operating in the states, and how comparative research helps resolve fundamental controversies in political science. We conclude that there is a remarkable and unfortunate asymmetry between the political importance of state supreme courts and the attention given to them by the research community. Moreover, by capitalizing on the analytical advantages of comparative state judicial politics scholarship, scholars will be able to solve some of the most complex puzzles in the study of state politics.

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Placing State Supreme Courts in State Politics

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Hall²,

Langer

2001

State Politics Policy Q.

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“…The first advance directive was proposed by the Euthanasia Society of America in 1967 (Glick 1991). Luis Kutner, a human‐rights lawyer from Chicago who represented the society, described this concept in a 1969 article.…”

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“…The number of living will laws snowballed during the next ten years, so that by the end of 1986, forty‐one states had adopted them (Glick 1991, 289). But the shortcomings of living wills gradually became apparent to policymakers and the public, especially with respect to the narrow range of decisions to which the laws applied.…”

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The Evolution of Health Care Advance Planning Law and Policy

2010

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Context:The legal tools of health care advance planning have substantially changed since their emergence in the mid-1970s. Thirty years of policy development, primarily at the state legislative level addressing surrogate decision making and advance directives, have resulted in a disjointed policy landscape, yet with important points of convergence evolving over time. An understanding of the evolution of advance care planning policy has important implications for policy at both the state and federal levels. Methods:This article is a longitudinal statutory and literature review of health care advance planning from its origins to the present. Findings:While considerable variability across the states still remains, changes in law and policy over time suggest a gradual paradigm shift from what is described as a "legal transactional approach" to a "communications approach," the most recent extension of which is the emergence of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or POLST. The communications approach helps translate patients' goals into visible and portable medical orders. Conclusions:States are likely to continue gradually moving away from a legal transactional mode of advance planning toward a communications model, albeit with challenges to authentic and reliable communication that accurately translates patients' wishes into the care they receive. In the meantime, the states and their health care institutions will continue to serve as the primary laboratory for advance care planning policy and practice.

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“…Research could provide important information for policy makers about alternative hierarchies, and provide additional information to the public about the importance of and need for a medical surrogate. Similarly, though the elderly are disproportionately affected by the right-to-die issue, only a limited amount of research has considered this topic (Glick, 1991). Research would be helpful in informing clinicians who are asked to conduct end-of-life evaluations to determine decision making competencies and to make recommendations based on those evaluations (Moye, 2000;Rosenfeld, 2004).…”

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Elder research: filling an important gap in psychology and law

Brank

2007

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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In the past few decades, psychology–law as a discipline has made great strides in understanding and guiding public policies on issues related to eyewitnesses, confessions, juries, judges, juveniles, the mentally ill, and many others. As a field, we have largely neglected the oldest subset of the population, with only a few scholars focusing specifically on elder issues or systematically including elders in their studies. The current article is a call to research. It first outlines why elders should be considered as a specific subset of the population even though they have not been an area of focus in the field. Second, the article provides suggestions for integrating elder issues into more common psychology–law research as well as some new areas for research. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The right-to-die: State policymaking and the elderly

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Placing State Supreme Courts in State Politics

Placing State Supreme Courts in State Politics

The Evolution of Health Care Advance Planning Law and Policy

Elder research: filling an important gap in psychology and law

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