Comparative Policy Analysis and Health Care An Introduction
None of us can escape the “bombardment of information about what is happening in other countries” (Klein 1997). Yet in the field of health policy, which is our subject, there is a considerable imbalance between the magnitude and speed of the information flows and the capacity to learn useful lessons...
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| Published in | Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care p. 1 |
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| Abstract | None of us can escape the “bombardment of information about what is happening in other countries” (Klein 1997). Yet in the field of health policy, which is our subject, there is a considerable imbalance between the magnitude and speed of the information flows and the capacity to learn useful lessons from them.¹ There is, moreover, a substantial gap between promise and performance in the field of comparative policy studies. Misdescription and superficiality are all too common. Unwarranted inferences, rhetorical distortion, and caricatures all show up too regularly in comparative health policy scholarship and debates. Why might that be so, and |
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| AbstractList | This chapter explores the methodological questions raised by concerns about weaknesses in international comparison in health policy. The core question is how one nation can learn from another competently in health care policy. The chapter is organized as follows. The first section describes the political context of health and welfare state reform debates during the last three decades of the twentieth century. The second section takes up the topic of cross-national policy learning more directly, addressing some of the promises and methodological pitfalls of such work. The third section focuses on health reform debates, reviews the claims of convergence among industrialized countries, and outlines the expansive scholarship on comparative health policy. The fourth section addresses the purposes, promises, and pitfalls of comparative studies in health policy. The fifth section groups the works in categories that highlight the character, possibilities, and limits of this comparative literature. The concluding section returns to the chapter's basic theme: the real promise of comparative policy scholarship and the mixed portrait of performance to date. None of us can escape the “bombardment of information about what is happening in other countries” (Klein 1997). Yet in the field of health policy, which is our subject, there is a considerable imbalance between the magnitude and speed of the information flows and the capacity to learn useful lessons from them.¹ There is, moreover, a substantial gap between promise and performance in the field of comparative policy studies. Misdescription and superficiality are all too common. Unwarranted inferences, rhetorical distortion, and caricatures all show up too regularly in comparative health policy scholarship and debates. Why might that be so, and |
| Author | Freeman, Richard Okma, Kieke G. H Marmor, Theodore R |
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| Subtitle | An Introduction |
| Title | Comparative Policy Analysis and Health Care |
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