Theodore Marmor and Claus Wendt  
  Reforming Healthcare Systems vergrößerte Ansicht in neuem Fenster  
  Volume I  
  Ideas, interests and institutions  
  667 p., Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011  
 

ISBN: 978 1 84844 345 7

  

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Abstract

Healthcare is one of modern society’s most crucial arenas – costly, important and controversial. This comprehensive two-volume collection brings together more than fifty scholarly articles on both healthcare systems in general and health reform in particular. The editors have carefully selected papers by leading academics which will enhance our understanding of the central feature of social and political life. The articles are distinguished by their clear prose and wide disciplinary range. The volumes are an essential reference resource for students, and practitioners interested in this topical field.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction Theodore Marmor and Claus Wendt

PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES
1. David Mechanic (1975), ‘The Comparative Study of Health Care Delivery Systems’
2. T.R. Marmor, M.L. Barer and R.G. Evans (1994), ‘The Determinants of a Population’s Health: What Can Be Done To Improve a Democratic Nation’s Health Status?’
3. Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw (1994), ‘Ethics, Institutional Complexity and Health Care Reform: The Struggle for Normative Balance’
4. Rudolf Klein (1997), ‘Learning from Others: Shall the Last Be the First?’
5. Theodore R. Marmor, Richard Freeman and Kieke Okma (2005), ‘Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care’
PART II METHDOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISON
6. OECD (1987), ‘The Health Systems of OECD Countries’
7. Michael Moran (2000), ‘Understanding the Welfare State: The Case of Health Care’
8. Viola Burau and Robert H. Blank (2006), ‘Comparing Health Policy: An Assessment of Typologies of Health Systems’
9. Claus Wendt, Lorraine Frisina and Heinz Rothgang (2009), ‘Healthcare System Types: A Conceptual Framework for Comparison’
PART III HEALTHCARE REFORMS AND THE POWER OF IDEAS
10. Alain C. Enthoven (1993), ‘The History and Principles of Managed Competition’
11. Theodore R. Marmor (2000), ‘The Ideological Context of Medicare’s Politics: The Presumptions of Medicare’s Founders versus the Rise of the Procompetitive Ideas in Medical Care’
12. Susan Giaimo and Philip Manow (1997), ‘Institutions and Ideas into Politics: Health Care Reform in Britain and Germany’
13. Thomas R. Oliver and Pamela Paul-Shaheen (1997), ‘Translating Ideas into Actions: Entrepreneurial Leadership in State Health Care Reforms’
14. Vandna Bhatia and William D. Coleman (2003), ‘Ideas and Discourse: Reform and Resistance in the Canadian and German Health Systems’
PART IV INTERESTS AND ACTORS IN THE HEALTHCARE ARENA
15. Jean De Kervasdoué and Victor G. Rodwin (1984), ‘Health Policy and the Expanding Role of the State: 1945–1980’
16. Rudolf Klein (1979), ‘Ideology, Class and the National Health Service’
17. Ellen M. Immergut (1990), ‘Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care’
18. Joseph White (2003), ‘Three Meanings of Capacity; Or, Why the Federal Government Is Most Likely to Lead on Insurance Access Issues’
19. Carolyn Hughes Tuohy (2003), ‘Agency, Contract, and Governance: Shifting Shapes of Accountability in the Health Care Arena’
PART V INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND PERSISTENCE
20. David Wilsford (1994), ‘Path Dependency, or Why History Makes It Difficult but Not Impossible to Reform Health Care Systems in a Big Way’
21. Jacob S. Hacker (1998), ‘The Historical Logic of National Health Insurance: Structure and Sequence in the Development of British, Canadian, and U.S. Medical Policy’
22. Sven Steinmo and Jon Watts (1995), ‘It’s the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in America’
23. Rudolf Klein (1998), ‘Why Britain Is Reorganizing Its National Health Service – Yet Again’
24. Richard Freeman (1999), ‘Institutions, States and Cultures: Health Policy and Politics in Europe’
25. Susan Giaimo and Philip Manow (1999), ‘Adapting the Welfare State: The Case of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States’