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Health policy and territorial politics: Disciplinary misunderstandings and directions for research
(2017-04-08)
The territorial politics of health is both underexploited by mainstream political scientists and the subject of a large and distinctive health policy literature that rarely connects with political science. This chapter ...
Reinforcing Europe’s failed fiscal regulatory state
(2016-11-21)
Fiscal governance in the EU is an exemplary case of the regulatory state; the EU governs member states’ fiscal and public policies through rules rather than expenditure. The weaknesses of the EU fiscal regulatory state ...
Debacle: Trump’s Response to the COVID-19 Emergency
(2020-08-26)
Why did the United States, ranked as the world's best prepared country, fail so dramatically in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Part of the reason is the backdrop of a fragmented and largely market-driven health ...
The new political economy of healthcare in the European Union: The impact of fiscal governance
(Sage, 2016-04-01)
We argue that the political economy of health care in the European Union is being changed by the creation of a substantial new apparatus of European fiscal governance. A series of treaties and legal changes since 2008 have ...
The English NHS: Key attributes and challenges
(2018-04-20)
A short analysis of the five major features of the English National Health Service and the key challenges including Brexit that it faces. Forthcoming (in German), published by the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung.
The United States confronts Ebola: Suasion, executive action, and fragmentation
(Cambridge University Press, 2016-06-23)
The United States’ experience with the Ebola virus in 2014 provides a window into US public health politics. First, the US provided a case study in the role of suasion and executive action in the management of public health ...
Differences in health care access and utilization between older adolescents and young adults with asthma
(2013-01-01)
OBJECTIVE: Studies suggest that young adults have worse health care access, use less primary care, and visit emergency departments more frequently than adolescents. We examined whether these differences existed between ...