http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55486 http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/retrieve/203217 http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55486 Search the Channel search http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57495 Title: Equity of skilled delivery care in developing countries: financing and policy determinants <br/> <br/>Authors: Kruk, Margaret Elizabeth; Prescott, Marta R; Galea, Sandro http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55771 Title: The cost-effectiveness of surgically trained assistant medical officers in performing major obstetrical surgery in Mozambique <br/> <br/>Authors: Kruk, Margaret Elizabeth; Pereira, Caetano; Vaz, Fernando; Bergstrom, Stefan; Galea, Sandro http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55488 Title: Demanding Only Autonomy: The Mobilization of Catalan Nationhood in the Spanish Democratic Transition, 1970-1975 <br/> <br/>Authors: Greer, Scott L. <br/> <br/>Abstract: Much of the literature on democratic transitions and ethnic conflict focuses on the role of elites, whether as constructive contributors to ethnic harmony and pacted transitions, or as fomenters of disharmony. What these accounts often fail to take into account is the extent to which the existence of political elites is a variable in itself, particularly when their power bases are not organizations like an army but rather nations or classes. This paper develops, based accounts of labor movements in transitions, an analysis of how competition for scarce militants and the demands of organizing them shapes the power and importance of elites. It does this through a case study of Catalonia in the years preceeding the Spanish transition. During those years Catalonia, both a stateless nation and a potentially divided society, was the site of organizing from the left and right that nearly monopolized militants and channeled their activity into autonomist, exclusive forms of nationalist mobilization that stifled attempts at internal polarization while creating elites who could negotiate on Catalonia’s behalf in the transition. In other words, the ability of moderate Catalan nationalists to organize before the transition explains their ability to represent Catalonia and control its fissures later, and contributes to explaining the success of Catalonia as a case of peaceful multinational coexistence. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55487 Title: Choosing Paths in European Union Health Policy: A Political Analysis of a Critical Juncture <br/> <br/>Authors: Greer, Scott L. <br/> <br/>Abstract: Health policy in the European Union is at a critical juncture: a moment in which decisions are highly contingent but, once taken, will shape politics and policy for the future. EU health policy is contingent because of its sideways development; it has emerged as an issue due to the decisions of the European Court of Justice rather than member state volition. There is, accordingly, no established EU health policy community or trajectory. Instead, there are a range of different models of health policy, each with different logics, lineages, policy tools and bureaucratic sponsors. But the decisions taken in this fluid situation will shape future policy because of the importance and “stickiness” of the EU- once the European Court of Justice has taken a decision, or legislation has passed, it is difficult to undo it. This article explains the nature of the external shock that created an EU policy arena where none had been; the reasons that decisions taken now will be subject to the logic of path dependency; and the different models that are being put forward for the EU.