Public Accountability and Health Care Governance
Public Management Reforms Between Austerity and Democracy
Editors: Mattei, Paola (Ed.)
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This book deals with the critical empirical void created by the speed at which healthcare restructuring has taken place in Europe. Chapters explore the political uncertainty and budgetary pressures which have led governments increasingly to turn to New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms to attempt to balance the financial viability of public health structures, with democratic imperatives to maintain socially just outcomes. The authors of this volume consider how governments have therefore shifted identities from principal care providers to contractual monitors, setting targets increasingly directed toward third-party managers in quasi-markets and the private sector. Drawing upon extensive data from Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, and Israel, the contributions explore the often unexpected policy outputs and outcomes engendered by such reforms.
- About the authors
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Paola Mattei is Associate Professor in Comparative Social Policy, and Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK. Her books include Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe: From Democracy to Good Management? (2009); University Adaptation in Difficult Economic Times (2014); and Secular institutions, Islam and Education Policy (2016).
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Public Management Reforms and Their Impact on Democratic Processes
Pages 1-11
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German Healthcare in Transition: Global Pressures, Governance and Public Wellbeing
Pages 13-35
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Hospital Planning in a Competitive Arena: Sustaining or Suspending Market Forces?
Pages 37-64
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Marketization and Accountability: Lessons from the Reforming Norwegian Healthcare System
Pages 65-89
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From Demigods in White to Normal Employees: Employment Relations and New Incentive Structures in German Hospitals
Pages 91-114
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Public Accountability and Health Care Governance
- Book Subtitle
- Public Management Reforms Between Austerity and Democracy
- Editors
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- Paola Mattei
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-47299-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-47299-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-47298-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 226
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
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