Health System Decentralization and Recentralization: Ideational and Institutional Dynamics in Italy and Denmark

✍ Scribed by Andrea Terlizzi

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Series: International Series on Public Policy
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time. Drawing from historical and discursive institutionalism, the explanatory framework revolves around the role of ideas, discourse and institutions. Through the analysis of the Italian and Danish health systems, the book corroborates the value of combining ideational and institutional accounts in explaining institutional continuity and change, offering new empirical and theoretical insights into the study of public policy making. The book will be of use to students and scholars interested in health politics and policy, federalism and decentralization, and theories of institutional change.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Health Systems, Decentralization, and Change (Andrea Terlizzi)....Pages 1-42
Explaining Health System Decentralization and Recentralization (Andrea Terlizzi)....Pages 43-77
Health System Decentralization and Recentralization in Italy (Andrea Terlizzi)....Pages 79-132
Health System Decentralization and Recentralization in Denmark (Andrea Terlizzi)....Pages 133-167
Conclusions: Ideas, Discourse, Institutions, and Change (Andrea Terlizzi)....Pages 169-188
Back Matter ....Pages 189-228

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; Public Policy; European Politics; Legislative and Executive Politics; Development and Health; Health Policy; Comparative Politics