The Coordination of European Public Hospital Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Sorin Dan

   Pages 1-7

3. Public Management Reform and Coordination

   • Sorin Dan

   Pages 9-48

4. Theoretical Framework

   • Sorin Dan

   Pages 49-57

5. Research Design

   • Sorin Dan

   Pages 59-73

6. Coordination of Public Hospitals in Estonia

   • Sorin Dan

   Pages 75-129

7. Coordination of Public Hospitals in Romania

   • Sorin Dan

   Pages 131-178

8. Coordination of Public Hospitals in Norway

   • Sorin Dan

   Pages 179-217

9. Discussion and Conclusions

   • Sorin Dan

   Pages 219-242

10. Back Matter

    Pages 243-261

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This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years. It provides a useful overview of these reforms and studies the way in which they have influenced the ability of national policy-making institutions to co-ordinate the system of public hospitals as a whole. Using a comparative structure, as well as original empirical data collected by the author, the book examines case studies on which little has so far been published for an international audience in English. 

• New Public Management
• Public Sector reform
• Healthcare
• Decentralization
• Estonia
• Romania
• Norway

• Lecturer in Management, Emanuel University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania

  Sorin Dan

Sorin Dan has worked as Policy Analyst at the OECD on public governance reform with countries such as Lithuania, Romania and Slovak Republic as well as the OECD more generally. He was previously a Doctoral Researcher at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium where he completed his doctoral thesis. While in Leuven he was part of the COCOPS project team, a major EU-funded international research project. His work on public administration and healthcare reform has appeared in different international journals.                                                                                                 

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