A comparative approach to policy analysis : health care policy in four nations
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A comparative approach to policy analysis : health care policy in four nations
Cambridge University Press, 1979
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- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 310-315
Includes index
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Description
This book provides a framework for explaining why governments adopt the policies they do. In addition, it establishes a basis for comparing political systems in terms of their public policies rather than their institutions or political processes. The book begins by placing in a historical perspective the worldwide role of the state as a major provider of goods and services. Following this general background is an 'accounting scheme' that brings some semblance of order to the seemingly infinite variety of policy-relevant variables and makes the comparative study of public policy more manageable. It is suggested that any nation's public policies can be explained in terms of situational, structural, environmental and cultural factors. The second part of the book applies the accounting scheme to an increasingly specific and narrow range of public policies. The author examines one crucial area of public policy - health care - and the evolution of that policy in four diverse nations: Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and Japan. The book concludes with an assessment of the prospects for an American national health care programme in the light of the experiences of these other nations.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Comparative policy analysis
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The origins and evolution of the positive state
- 3. Accounting for public policy
- 4. Comparing policy priorities
- Part III. National health care policy in four nations
- 5. Germany: the pioneer in national health care
- 6. Great Britain: health care in a modern welfare state
- 7. The Soviet Union: health care in a communist state
- 8. Japan: health care in an Asian nation
- 9. Summary and implications for health care policy in the United States
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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