There is widespread agreement that both the configuration and the application of state
authority in the health sector should be realigned in the interest of achieving agreed policy …

As a result of China's transition to a socialist market economy, its rural health services have
undergone many of the changes commonly associated with health sector reform. These …

Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair
education for all learners? In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive …

Many governments in the WHO European Region are reviewing their health care systems
and the suitability of their existing approaches to financing, organizing and delivering health …

In this important attempt to reorient the theory and practice of public management, Stewart
Ranson and John Stewart argue that public organisations must be analysed in terms of the …

This paper explores the meaning, and some of the practical implications, of health sector
reform in less developed countries. It reviews the problems that reforms have to address …

The importance and influence of professions in public life has grown increasingly over the
twentieth century but the question of whether they subordinate their own self-interests to the …

This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading
industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows …

The major shifts in public policy during the past two decades have led to equally momentous
changes in policy provision and its supporting structures. This has been characterized …

This article redresses an imbalance in the study of the welfare state: the comparative neglect
of health‐care programmes as sources of evidence about the changing politics of the …