This literature review pursues two main objectives: first, it argues that research on health
policy actors and healthcare systems need to be separated more thoroughly. Though there …

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across
a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle …

Since the 1990s, mainstream political parties have failed to address the problem of growing
inequality, resulting in political backlash and the transformation of European party systems …

This paper introduces social identity theory and self-categorization theory to policy process
research. Drawing from the prominent and widely acknowledged psychological social …

Context History helps us to better understand the particulars of the form and functions of
institutions. In this paper we present the case study of the evolution of health care financing …

Résumé La question «Qui gouverne les politiques publiques?» est centrale pour analyser
les élites du pouvoir qui peuvent être caractérisées par leur capacité à impulser des …

The promotion of choice is a common theme in both policy discourses and commercial
marketing claims about healthcare. However, within the multiple potential pathways of the …

L'introduction de ce numéro spécial propose de mettre en relation deux approches de
l'analyse de la transnationalisation des politiques publiques: les travaux portant sur la …

Scholars and governments recognize the importance of policy development and
implementation for population health, but there is a lack of systematic theoretical and …

This article classifies 32 O rganisation for E conomic C o‐operation and D evelopment
(OECD) healthcare systems based on data from 2001 and 2007. It shows that European …