Decentring Health Policy
Taking a decentred approach to the analysis of health policy means being attentive to the historical contingencies and circumstances within which reforms are located, the influence of dominant or elite narratives in the shaping of policy, the local traditions and customary practices through which policies are mobilised, and the way local actors contest, negotiate and co-construct policy.
This book offers a unique analysis of the changing landscape of healthcare reform in Britain, as an example of decentralised reforms across the developed world. The collection is framed by the recognition that healthcare reform has resulted in variegated and decentralised forms of governance. The chapters look at distinct aspects of reform within the British NHS to bring to light the influence of local histories, traditions, coalitions, and values, in the remaking of a national healthcare system. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of reform, and in others develops a cross-national and comparative analysis. However, each chapter offers a unique contribution to the analysis of contemporary theories of healthcare governance.
This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in healthcare, health and social policy, political science, and public management and governance.
Mark Bevir is Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Center for British Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Professor in the Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands, and a Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University, UK.
Justin Waring is Professor of Organisational Sociology and Associate Dean at Nottingham University Business School, where he founded and directed the Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning between 2012 and 2017, at the University of Nottingham, UK.
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Decentring Health Policy
Learning from British Experiences in Healthcare Governance
Edited by Mark Bevir and Justin Waring
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Title: Decentring health policy : learning from British experiences in
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Other titles: Routledge studies in governance and public policy ; 31.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge studies in governance and public policy ; 31 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
MARK BEVIR AND JUSTIN WARGING
LORELEI JONES
RUTH McDONALD
KATH CHECKLAND
TIM FREEEMAN, RUSSELL MANNION, ROSS MILLAR AND HUW DAVIES
JUSTIN WARING, SIMON BISHOP AND BRIDGET ROE
GRAHAM P. MARTIN AND PAM CARTER
ELLEN STEWART
ROB RALSTON AND KATHERINE SMITH
SCOTT L. GREER
EWEN SPEED
Mark Bevir is Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Center for British Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Professor in the Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands, and a Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University, UK. He is the author of various books including The State as Cultural Practice (with R. A. W. Rhodes, Oxford University Press, 2010), Democratic Governance (Princeton University Press, 2010), The Making of British Socialism (Princeton University Press, 2011), Governance: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012), and A Theory of Governance (University of California Press, 2013).
Simon Bishop is Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour and Director of the Executive MBA Healthcare. His research is primarily focused on issues of organisational change in healthcare and other public service organisations. He has conducted studies on new types of healthcare organisations such as Independent Sector Treatment Centres and knowledge translations organisations. An important theme of his research is the relationships between organisations for example partnerships, supply and commissioning arrangements and how this affects organisational management, work and employment. His work has been published in journals such as