(2011):
Welfare States and Public Opinion. Perceptions of Healthcare Systems, Family Policy and Benefits for the Unemployed and Poor in Europe.
Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA:
Edward Elgar.
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Prof. Dr. Claus Wendt
former staff member
Phone:
+49-621-181-2804Research Interests
- Institutional Theory
- Political Sociology
- Comparative Welfare State Analysis
- Comparative Health Care System Analysis
- Sociology of Health and Medicine
Projects
AI Associated Projects
RP7 A1 Market Economies and Welfare States
RP7 A2 Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification
RP6 AI Associated Projects
Publications
(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)
Monographs
Rothgang, Heinz, Mirella Cacace, Lorraine Frisina, Simone Grimmeisen, Achim Schmid and Claus Wendt
(2010):
The State and Healthcare. Comparing OECD Countries.
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan.
[Transformation of the State Series]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2009):
Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung? Gesundheitssysteme im Vergleich - 2. überarbeitete Auflage.
Wiesbaden:
VS Verlag.
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Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Heinz-Herbert Noll, Thomas Bahle, Claus Wendt and Angelika Scheuer
(2007):
Report Lebensqualität 2006. Im Auftrag des Verbandes Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller.
Mannheim:
MZES.
more
Wendt, Claus
(2003):
Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung? Gesundheitssysteme im Vergleich.
Wiesbaden:
Westdeutscher Verlag.
more
Editions
Marmor, Theodore, and Claus Wendt
(Eds.)
(2011):
Reforming Healthcare Systems, Volume I.
Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Wendt, Claus, and Christof Wolf
(Eds.)
(2006):
Soziologie der Gesundheit.
Wiesbaden:
VS-Verlag.
[Sonderheft der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie; 46]
more
Albert, Gert, Agathe Bienfait, Steffen Sigmund and Claus Wendt
(Eds.)
(2005):
Das Weber-Paradigma. Studien zur Weiterentwicklung von Max Webers Forschungsprogramm.
Tübingen:
Mohr Siebeck.
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Journal Articles
Gauld, Robin, Robert Blank, Jako Burgers, Alan Cohen, Mark Dobrow, Naoki Ikegami and Claus Wendt
(2012):
The World Health Report 2008 - Primary health care: How wide is the gap between its agenda and implementation in 12 high-income health systems?.
Healthcare Policy, 7, issue 3, p. 38-58.
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Reibling, Nadine, and Claus Wendt
(2012):
Gatekeeping and Provider Choice in OECD Healthcare Systems.
Current Sociology, 60, issue 4, p. 489-505.
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Wendt, Claus, Monika Mischke, Michaela Pfeifer and Nadine Reibling
(2012):
Confidence in receiving medical care when seriously ill: a seven-country comparison of the impact of cost barriers.
Health Expectations, 15, issue 2, p. 212-224.
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Dent, Mike, Catherine Fallon, Claus Wendt, Jari Vuori, Carlo de Pietro, Majda Pahor and Susana Silva
(2011):
Medicine and user involvement within European healthcare: a typology for European comparative research.
International Journal of Clinical Practice, 65, issue 12, p. 1218-1220.
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Reibling, Nadine, and Claus Wendt
(2011):
Regulating patients’ access to healthcare services.
International Journal of Public and Private Healthcare Management and Economics, 1, issue 2, p. 1-16.
more
Wendt, Claus
(2011):
Comparative studies and the politics of modern medical care.
Political Studies Review, 9, issue 2, p. 254-256.
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Wendt, Claus, Monika Mischke, Michaela Pfeifer and Nadine Reibling
(2011):
Cost barriers reduce confidence in receiving medical care when seriously ill.
International Journal of Clinical Practice, 65, issue 11, p. 1115-1117.
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Reibling, Nadine, and Claus Wendt
(2010):
Bereichsbesprechung: Gesundheit und Gesundheitssystem.
Soziologische Revue, 33, issue 2, p. 230-242.
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Reibling, Nadine, and Claus Wendt
(2010):
Bildungsniveau und Zugang zu Gesundheitsleistungen. Eine vergleichende Analyse von Zugangsregulierung und Inanspruchnahme fachärztlicher Leistungen in Europa.
Das Gesundheitswesen, 72, issue 08/09, p. 447-454.
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Wendt, Claus, Jürgen Kohl, Monika Mischke and Michaela Pfeifer
(2010):
How do Europeans perceive their healthcare system? Patterns of satisfaction and preference for state involvement in the field of healthcare.
European Sociological Review, 26, issue 2, p. 177-192.
more
Wendt, Claus, and Rubin Minhas
(2010):
The power of ideas – can Obama’s healthcare reforms change the U.S. health system?.
The International Journal of Clinical Practice, 64, issue 4, p. 423-425.
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Wendt, Claus, and Jürgen Kohl
(2010):
Translating monetary inputs into health care provision: A comparative analysis of the impact of different modes of public Policy.
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 12, issue 1-2, p. 11-31.
more
Minhas, Rubin, and Claus Wendt
(2009):
Letter from America: the political economics of US healthcare reform.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 102, issue 4, p. 129-133.
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Reibling, Nadine, and Claus Wendt
(2009):
Gesundheitszustand und Nutzung von Gesundheitsleistungen im europäischen Vergleich.
Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 55, issue 4, p. 329-346.
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Wendt, Claus, Lorraine Frisina and Heinz Rothgang
(2009):
Healthcare system types: a conceptual framework for comparison.
Social Policy & Administration, 43, issue 1, p. 70-90.
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Wendt, Claus
(2009):
Mapping European healthcare systems. A comparative analysis of financing, service provision, and access to healthcare.
Journal of European Social Policy, 19, issue 5, p. 432-445.
more
Wendt, Claus
(2009):
Vertrauen der Bürgerinnen und Bürger in ihre Gesundheitssysteme.
Public Health Forum, 17, issue 3, p. 5.e1-5.e4.
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Minhas, Rubin, Claus Wendt and Anthony Wierzibicki
(2008):
Is healthcare in the United States too big to fail?.
International Journal of Clinical Practice, 62, issue 12, p. 1827-1830.
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Wendt, Claus
(2008):
Einstellungen zu wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Institutionen in Europa - Wie werden Gesundheitssysteme von den Bürgerinnen und Bürger wahrgenommen?.
Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 54, issue 2, p. 115-140.
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Wendt, Claus
(2007):
Sinkt das Vertrauen in Gesundheitssysteme? Eine vergleichende Analyse europäischer Länder.
WSI Mitteilungen, issue 7, p. 380-386.
more
Wendt, Claus
(2006):
Gesundheitssysteme im internationalen Vergleich. Ein Überblick über den Forschungsstand.
Das Gesundheitswesen, p. 593-599.
more
Helmert, Uwe, Mirella Cacace, Simone Grimmeisen, Claus Wendt and Heinz Rothgang
(2005):
Der Wandel der Staatlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen von OECD-Ländern – Fragestellungen, Untersuchungsdesign und erste Ergebnisse.
Das Gesundheitswesen, 67, p. 89-95.
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Rothgang, Heinz, Mirella Cacace, Simone Grimmeisen and Claus Wendt
(2005):
The Changing Role of the State in Healthcare Systems.
European Review, 13, issue Supp.No.1, p. 187-212.
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Wendt, Claus, and Theresa Thompson
(2004):
Social Austerity versus Structural Reform in European Health Systems: A Four-Country Comparison of Health Reforms.
International Journal of Health Services, 34, issue 3, p. 415-433.
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Book Chapters
Wendt, Claus
(2011):
Gesundheitssysteme im internationalen Vergleich.
p. 471-485 in:
Thomas Schott, Claudia Hornberg
(Eds.)
Die Gesellschaft und ihre Gesundheit. 20 Jahre Public Health in Deutschland: Bilanz und Ausblick einer Wissenschaft.
Wiesbaden:
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
more
Wendt, Claus, and Theodore Marmor
(2011):
Introduction.
p. xiii-xxxvii in:
Theodore Marmor, Claus Wendt
(Eds.)
Reforming Healthcare Systems.
Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing.
more
Bahle, Thomas, Michaela Pfeifer and Claus Wendt
(2010):
Social assistance.
p. 448-461 in:
Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, Christopher Pierson
(Eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press .
more
Bahle, Thomas, Jürgen Kohl and Claus Wendt
(2010):
Welfare State.
p. 571-628 in:
Stefan Immerfall, Göran Therborn
(Eds.)
Handbook of European Societies.
New York:
Springer.
more
Grimmeisen, Simone, and Claus Wendt
(2010):
Gesundheitspolitik.
p. 159-172 in:
Sebastian Bukow, Wenke Seemann
(Eds.)
Die Große Koalition. Regierung - Politik - Parteien 2005-2009.
Wiesbaden:
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft.
more
Rothgang, Heinz, Achim Schmid and Claus Wendt
(2010):
The self-regulatory German healthcare system between growing competition and State hierarchy.
p. 119-179 in:
Heinz Rothgang, Mirella Cacace, Simone Grimmeisen, Achim Schmid, Claus Wendt
(Eds.)
The State and Healthcare. Comparing OECD Countries.
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan.
more
Schmid, Achim, and Claus Wendt
(2010):
The changing role of the State in healtcare service provision.
p. 53-71 in:
Heinz Rothgang, Mirella Cacace, Simone Grimmeisen, Achim Schmid, Claus Wendt
(Eds.)
The State and Healthcare. Comparing OECD Countries.
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan.
more
Wendt, Claus
(2009):
Grundprinzipien der sozialen Sicherheit und Gleichheit im Wohlfahrtsstaat.
p. 135-146 in:
Peter Siller, Gerhard Pitz
(Eds.)
Politik der Gerechtigkeit. Zur politischen Orientierungskraft eines umkämpften Ideals.
Baden-Baden:
Nomos.
more
Kuhlmann, Ellen, and Claus Wendt
(2008):
New governance, Institutionenwandel und Vertrauen im Gesundheitssystem – Vertrauensverlust oder neue Formen der Vertrauensbildung?.
p. 4443-4445 in:
Karl-Siegbert Rehberg
(Ed.)
Die Natur der Gesellschaft. Verhandlungen des 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Kassel 2006.
Frankfurt:
Campus.
more
Wendt, Claus
(2008):
Leitideen der Gesundheitsversorgung.
p. 149-173 in:
Steffen Sigmund, Gert Albert, Agathe Bienfait, Mateusz Stachura
(Eds.)
Soziale Konstellation und historische Perspektive. Festschrift für M. Rainer Lepsius.
Wiesbaden:
VS-Verlag.
more
Wendt, Claus
(2008):
Nimmt das Vertrauen in Gesundheitssysteme ab? Ein internationaler Vergleich.
p. 4446-4457 in:
Karl-Siegbert Rehberg
(Ed.)
Die Natur der Gesellschaft. Verhandlungen des 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Kassel 2006.
Frankfurt:
Campus.
more
Rothgang, Heinz, Mirella Cacace, Simone Grimmeisen, Uwe Helmert and Claus Wendt
(2006):
Wandel von Staatlichkeit in den Gesundheitssystemen von OECD-Ländern.
p. 309-355 in:
Stephan Leibfried, Michael Zürn
(Eds.)
Transformationen des Staates?.
Frankfurt am Main:
Suhrkamp.
more
Wendt, Claus
(2006):
Der Gesundheitssystemvergleich: Konzepte und Perspektiven.
p. 270-297 in:
Claus Wendt, Christof Wolf
(Eds.)
Soziologie der Gesundheit.
Wiesbaden:
VS-Verlag.
more
Wendt, Claus, and Jürgen Kohl
(2006):
Vom Nutzen und Nachteil des Institutionentransfers nach der deutschen Vereinigung.
p. 258-277 in:
Gert Albert, Agathe Bienfait, Steffen Sigmund, Mateusz Stachura
(Eds.)
Aspekte des Weber-Paradigmas.
Wiesbaden:
VS-Verlag.
more
Wolf, Christof, and Claus Wendt
(2006):
Perspektiven der Gesundheitssoziologie.
p. 9-33 in:
Claus Wendt, Christof Wolf
(Eds.)
Soziologie der Gesundheit.
Wiesbaden:
VS-Verlag.
more
Wendt, Claus, Simone Grimmeisen and Heinz Rothgang
(2005):
Convergence or Divergence in OECD Health Care Systems?.
p. 15-45 in:
Bea Cantillon, Ive Marx
(Eds.)
International Cooperation in Social Security.
Antwerpen:
Intersentia.
more
Kohl, Jürgen, and Claus Wendt
(2004):
19. Satisfaction with Health Care Systems. A Comparison of EU Countries.
p. 311-331 in:
Wolfgang Glatzer, Susanne von Below, Matthias Stoffregen
(Eds.)
Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World.
Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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MZES Working Papers
Reibling, Nadine, and Claus Wendt
(2008):
Access Regulation and Utilization of Healthcare Services.
Mannheim
[Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 113]
more
Wendt, Claus, Jürgen Kohl and Theresa Thompson
(2006):
Modes of Regulation and their Effects on Financing and Service Provision in OECD Health Care Systems.
Mannheim
[Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 95]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2005):
Der Gesundheitssystemvergleich: Konzepte und Perspektiven.
Mannheim
[Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 88]
more
Wendt, Claus, and Mathias Maucher
(2000):
Mütter zwischen Kinderbetreuung und Erwerbstätigkeit : Institutionelle Hilfen und Hürden bei einem beruflichen Wiedereinstieg nach einer Kinderpause.
Mannheim
[Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 18]
more
Wendt, Claus
(1999):
Health Services for Children in Denmark, Germany, Austria and Great Britain.
Mannheim
[Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 4]
more
Papers / Reports
Wendt, Claus, Irene Dingeldey, Kerstin Martens, Peter Starke and Jochen Zimmermann
(2007):
Der Wandel des Interventionsstaates.
Bremen
[TranState Working Papers]
more
Wendt, Claus, and Heinz Rothgang
(2007):
Gesundheitssystemtypen im Vergleich. Konzeptionelle Überlegungen zur vergleichenden Analyse von Gesundheitssystemen.
[TransState Working Papers]
more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Heinz-Herbert Noll, Thomas Bahle, Claus Wendt and Angelika Scheuer
(2006):
VFA-Report Lebensqualität 2006.
Mannheim
more
Wendt, Claus, Heinz Rothgang and U Helmert
(2005):
The self-regulatory German health care system between growing competition and state hierarchy.
Bremen
[TranState Working Papers]
more
Wendt, Claus, Mirella Cacace, Simone Grimmeisen, Uwe Helmert and Heinz Rothgang
(2004):
Convergence or Divergence of OECD Health Care Systems?.
Bremen
[TranState Working Papers]
more
Conference Presentations
Wendt, Claus
(2011):
Changing Types of Healthcare Systems.
[RC 19/ISA annual conference on "Production, Reproduction, and Protection in the Welfare State", Seoul, August 25th to August 27th, 2011]
more
Wendt, Claus, and Theodore Marmor
(2011):
Conceptual Frameworks for Comparing Healthcare Politics and Policy.
[The European Health Policy Group Meeting, London, September 22nd to September 23rd, 2011]
more
Wendt, Claus, and Theodore Marmor
(2011):
Conceptual Frameworks for Comparing Healthcare Politics and Policy.
[Healthcare systems: change and outcomes. Ideas, institutions, actors, and reform, Amsterdam, November 11th to November 12th, 2011]
more
Reibling, Nadine, and Claus Wendt
(2010):
Ideas and Institutional Change in Healthcare Systems.
[Equalsoc Institutional Change Workshop, MZES, November 25th to November 26th, 2010]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2010):
Framework for Comparing and Researching Health Policy Regimes.
[COST ACTION TRAINING SCHOOL: Enhancing the Role of Medicine in the Management of European Health Systems, Lyon, October 22nd, 2010]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2010):
The role of experts in the German healthcare system.
[Conference on the Politics of Ideas and the Politics of Representation: The Case of Health Policy, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, November 11th to November 12th, 2010]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2010):
Welfare States and Public Opinion in 15 European Countries.
[ESPAnet Conference 2010, Budapest, September 02nd to September 04th, 2010]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2009):
Challenges and reform options in health care systems: what can America learn from European countries?.
[The American Council on Germany and the European Union Center of Excellence, University of Wisconsin, Madison, January 28th, 2009]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2009):
Confidence in receiving medical care in seven countries.
[Harkness Program of Health Policy and Practice, final conference, New York, June 11th to June 12th, 2009]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2009):
Ideas and institutions in the field of health care.
[Visiting Scholars Seminar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 01st, 2009]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2009):
Regulating access to health care providers and inequalities of utilization in European countries.
[Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Chicago, June 28th to June 30th, 2009]
more
Mischke, Monika, Michaela Pfeifer and Claus Wendt
(2008):
Do Welfare State Institutions Provide Orientations?.
[34. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziolgie: Unsichere Zeiten. Postersession, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, October 06th to October 10th, 2008]
more
Reibling, Nadine, and Claus Wendt
(2008):
Who has Access to Health Care in Europe?.
[The Health of Nations Study Group, Center for European Studies,, Harvard University, Cambridge, November 21st, 2008]
more
Reibling, Nadine, and Claus Wendt
(2008):
Zugang und Nutzung von Gesundheitsversorgungsleistungen: Regulierung im europäischen Vergleich.
[34th Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Jena, October 06th to October 10th, 2008]
more
Wendt, Claus, and Nadine Reibling
(2008):
Regulating patients’ access and the utilization of healthcare services in European countries.
[The European Health Policy Group's Sixteenth Meeting: Access, Choice and Equity, Dublin, April 17th to April 18th, 2008]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2008):
Who has access to health care in Europe?.
[Invitation of The Health of Nations Study Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 21st, 2008]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2007):
Mapping European Healthcare Systems.
[5th Annual ESPAnet Conference “Social Policy in Europe: Changing Paradigms in an enlarging Europe?”, Vienna, September 20th to September 22nd, 2007]
more
Wendt, Claus, and Jürgen Kohl
(2007):
Patterns of Trust in Health Care Institutions.
[Annual Conference of Research Committee 19 of the International Sociological Association "Social Policy in a globalizing world: developing a north-south dialogue”, Florence, August 06th to August 08th, 2007]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2007):
Translating Monetary Inputs into Health care Services - The Influence of Different Modes of Public Policy in a Comparative Perspective.
[4th ICPA Forum Workshop: Comparative Healthcare Policies, Yale University, April 26th to April 29th, 2007]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2006):
Attitudes towards Welfare State Institutions.
[XVI World Congress of Sociology, Durban, July 23rd to July 29th, 2006]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2006):
Bedingungen für einen Institutionenwandel - Das Beispiel des Gesundheitssystems (Ad-hoc-Gruppe: Zur Natur der Behinderung. Klassifikationen der Gesundheit, Behinderung und Funktionsfähigkeit.
[33. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Universität Kassel, October 09th to October 13th, 2006]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2006):
Changing Health Care Systems in a Changing World.
[XVI World Congress of Sociology, Durban, July 23rd to July 29th, 2006]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2006):
Nimmt das Vertrauen in Institutionen der Gesundheitsversorgung ab? Ein internationaler Vergleich.
[33. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Universität Kassel, October 09th to October 13th, 2006]
more
Wendt, Claus, and Bernhard Ebbinghaus
(2006):
Workshop Teilnahme.
[TRALEG WORKSHOP (Trust, Associations and Legitimacy), Amsterdam, January 23rd, 2006]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2005):
Die neue soziale Frage. Ausgrenzung, Teilhabe und Umverteilung.
[Gerechtigkeits-Kongress. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Stuttgart, November 18th to November 19th, 2005]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2005):
Discussant of the presentation by Herbert Obinger: Outcomes of Policy Reforms.
[Governance of Welfare State Reform, Universität Bremen, December 16th to December 17th, 2005]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2005):
Health Care Systems, Social Inequality, and Health.
[Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposia, Tokio, November 02nd to November 05th, 2005]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2005):
Ideas, Actors and Institutions in Health Care Systems.
[2005 ESPAnet Conference, Fribourg, September 22nd to September 24th, 2005]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2005):
Reasons for high levels of satisfaction and trust.
[Health Care Systems between Centralisation and Decentralisation, Universität Bielefeld, May 12th, 2005]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2005):
Trust in Just Health Care Systems?.
[GSSS Conference on Social Justice, Bremen, March 10th to March 12th, 2005]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2004):
Ansätzes des Gesundheitssystemvergleichs.
[Graduiertenprogramm der Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Universität Bielefeld, July 08th, 2004]
more
Wendt, Claus
(2004):
Convergence or Divergence in OECD Health Care Systems.
[Eleventh International Research Seminar on “Issues in Social Security” – “International cooperation in social security: How to cope with globalisation”. The Foundation for International Studies of Social Security (FISS), Sigtuna, June 19th to June 21st, 2004]
more
Wendt, Claus, and Jürgen Kohl
(2004):
Regulation, financing and service provision in OECD health care systems.
[Annual Conference of Research Committee 19 of the International Sociological Association “Welfare state restructuring: processes and social outcomes”, Paris, September 02nd to September 04th, 2004]
more