Health Care Politics in the Age of Retrenchment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2115232
AutoresJason Jordan (0000-0003-3308-9104, Florida State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen40
Número1
Páginas113-134
Fecha de publicación2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279410000528
OpenAlexW2102382018
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas40

This article examines the debate between the power resources and 'new politics' scholars concerning the politics of welfare state retrenchment in advanced industrial democracies. Both approaches make competing claims concerning the relevance of partisan differences in the current age of welfare reform. This article tests the new politics hypothesis that partisanship has had a declining impact on welfare politics over time through an analysis of the growth in the public share of health care spending in 18 countries from 1960 to 2000. Consistent with the new politics approach, the results reveal that the partisan character of government no longer plays a significant role in determining changes in public responsibility for health care during the new politics period. This suggests that the current period is characterised by general agreement across party lines on the broad parameters of the health care system, reducing the intense partisan conflicts of the past to debates over reform at the margins of the health care system

Economics · Government (linguistics) · Health care · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Retrenchment · Welfare · Welfare reform · Welfare state · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies