Chapters in Books
Europe in translation: governance, integration and the project form
Policy makers and commentators refer readily to ‘the European project’, as though Europe itself were a project. But what would it mean to take this term seriously, to develop the account of European governance it seems to suggest? This chapter begins on the ground, in the everyday understanding of the project as an organizational form…
Doing comparison: producing authority in an international organization
Comparison is crucial to the way that policy organizations know the world, and nowhere more so than in the work of international organizations, which inevitably find themselves comparing policies and practices in different national settings. But how should we...
Knowledge, policy and coordinated action: mental health in Europe
As a knowledge-based international agency, WHO offers a useful opportunity to explore the nature of knowledge in policy making.
Knowledge and policy in research and practice
We sum up this volume by restating our initial ambition, which was to develop a framework for investigation rather than to formulate any specific theory.
Introduction: knowledge in policy – embodied, inscribed, enacted
The literature on the role of knowledge in policy making encompasses a striking diversity of views on just what knowledge is, what different types of knowledge there may be and how they are to be observed empirically.
Introduction: knowing governance
Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the making of knowledge about governance itself.
Introduction: governing Europe’s spaces: European Union re-imagined
What do we imagine when we imagine Europe and the European Union? What unacknowledged assumptions do we hold? This Introduction argues that, for a long time, EU studies has been dominated by discussions in which ‘the EU’ is consistently treated as an object: supranational, intergovernmental, multi-level, monotopia.
Rhizomic regulation: mobilising knowledge for mental health in Europe
Regulation depends fundamentally upon the production and dissemination of knowledge. At a minimum, one might imagine a mechanical model of regulation which involves regulator A exerting control over the actions of actor B. But even here, knowledge is crucial, for B must know what kinds of actions A requires or considers appropriate if regulation is to occur.
Introduction
We are concerned here with community psychiatry, a particular way of knowing and thinking about mental illness and of responding to it. Community psychiatry, for our purposes, refers to all the policies, services, agencies and staff deployed in treating people with mental health problems who are poor and for whom publicly-funded services are the default, if not the only, option.
‘Policy opportunities’
What is policy? How do we do or make policy? Where and who with? What is it for, anyway, and what difference does it make? Good questions, though you wouldn’t be asking them if you didn’t already know that answering them isn’t easy.
Health
This paper reviews comparative research on health policy in OECD countries, outlining the origins and development of health policy in the modern state and pointing to the different ways that development has been understood by welfare state scholars.
The United Kingdom: health policy learning in the NHS
Source: Marmor, T R, Freeman, R and Okma, K (eds) Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care, New Haven: Yale UP link SaveSave
Introduction
Source: Marmor, T R, Freeman, R and Okma, K (eds) Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care, New Haven: Yale UP link SaveSave SaveSave
Comparing health systems
This chapter reviews the modes and functions of cross-national comparison in health services research and policy. Source: Mullner, R (ed) Encyclopaedia of Health Services Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage link SaveSave
Pharmaceutical politics in OECD countries
Source: Marmor, T R, Freeman, R and Okma, K (eds) Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care, New Haven: Yale UP link SaveSave
Comparative perspectives and policy learning
Source: Morone, J A, Litman, T J and Robins, L S (eds) Health Politics and Policy, London: Cengage Delmar Learning link SaveSave
Western Europe, health systems of
Source: Heggenhougen, K and Quah, S (eds) International Encyclopaedia of Public Health, vol 6 San Diego: Academic Press/Elsevie link
Social democracy, uncertainty and health in Scotland
Health policy is as modern as social democracy. This is not to suggest that social democracy is some sort of ’cause’ of health policy, but that their environments – political, economic, demographic, social and ideological – are shared. Underpinning all of these is a common, modern epistemology, which frames the causes and effects of social problems and the capacities of government in specific ways.
Saglik Politikalari Süricinde Ögrenme [Learning in health policy]
Source: Keyder, C, Üstündag, Agartan, T and Yoltar, C (eds) Avrupa'da ve Türkiye'de Saglik Politikalari. Reformlar, sorunlar, tartismalar, Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari link
Learning in public policy
Introduction – Convergence, Diffusion, and Learning – Public Policy as Collective Puzzling – Learning in Practice – The Elements of Learning – Learning by Comparison Source: Rein, M, Moran, M and Goodin, R E (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Oxford: Oxford...
Welfare, participation and dissent in public policy
Relationships between states and citizens are defined at least in part through respective obligations and entitlements to welfare. Harold Lasswell’s ‘Who gets what, when, how’ is as good a definition of welfare as of politics: welfare is both source and target of a high proportion of political conflict in advanced industrial societies.
HIV and the blood supply in the United Kingdom: professionalization and pragmatism
Source: Bovens, M, t'Hart, P and Peters, B G (eds) Success and Failure in Governance. A comparative analysis of European states, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar link
Reforming health care in Europe
Source: Ferrera, M and Rhodes, M (eds) Recasting European Welfare States, London: Frank Cass. SaveSave
Conclusion: a new culture of welfare
Source: Chamberlayne, P, Cooper, A, Freeman, R and Rustin, M (eds) Welfare and Culture in Europe. Towards a new paradigm in social policy, London: Jessica Kingsley link
Introduction: welfare, culture and Europe
Source: Chamberlayne, P, Cooper, A, Freeman, R and Rustin, M (eds) Welfare and Culture in Europe. Towards a new paradigm in social policy, London: Jessica Kingsley link
Institutions, states and cultures: health policy and politics in Europe
Source: Clasen, J (ed) Comparative Social Policy. Concepts, theories and methods, Oxford: Blackwell link
The German model: the state and the market in health care reform
Source: Ranade, W (ed) Markets and Health Care. A comparative analysis, Harlow: Longman link
Prevention as a problem of modernity: the example of HIV and AIDS
Source: Gabe, J (ed) Medicine, Health and Risk. Sociological Approaches, Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph Series, Oxford: Blackwell
The German Social State: an introduction
Source: Clasen, J and Freeman, R (eds) Social Policy in Germany, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf. SaveSave
Prevention in health policy in the United Kingdom and the NHS
Source: Mills, M (ed) Prevention, Health and British Politics, Aldershot: Avebury
Governing the voluntary sector response to AIDS: a comparative study of the UK and Germany
Source: Kuhnle, S and Selle, P (eds) Government and Voluntary Organizations. A relational perspective, Aldershot: Avebury
The idea of prevention: a critical review
Source: Scott, S J, Williams, G H, Platt, S D and Thomas H A (eds) Private Risks and Public Dangers, Aldershot: Avebury
The politics of AIDS in Britain and Germany
Source: Aggleton, P, Davies, P and Hart, G (eds) AIDS: Rights, Risk and Reason, papers from the fifth conference on Social Aspects of AIDS, Brighton: Falmer