Ellen M Immergut
Biographic Data
| ID | 265204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen M Immergut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Immergut |
| SIGNATURE | IMMERGUT E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1085-8620 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 516 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From frontline coalitions to the political arena: Contextualizing mental health provision
Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook
Is it unfair for the affluent to be able to purchase "better" healthcare? Existential standards and institutional norms in healthcare attitudes across 28 countries
Recalibrating social protection: Electoral competition and the new partisan politics of the welfare state
This article investigates the new party politics of welfare states with a particular focus on electoral competition. The argument is that welfare state politics are no longer just about more or less, but involve trade‐offs among ‘new’ versus ‘old’ social rights, and hence social investment versus social consumption. However, party priorities on these issues are highly dependent upon their electoral situation. As electoral competition becomes more…
The politics of credit claiming: Rights and recognition in health policy feedback
Why do governments recognize rights? In this article, we rely on natural experiments and an innovative matching technique to identify a new causal mechanism of policy feedback, which we refer to as the “recognition” effect. We rely on the “hard case” of health care to demonstrate that attitudes towards the health system change in response to government policy change and, indeed, even to rights‐based initiatives. During the time when public opinio…
How electoral vulnerability affects pension politics: Introducing a concept, measure and empirical application
Are electorally vulnerable politicians really less likely to support controversial legislation, such as pension reforms? While the literature on welfare state retrenchment has increasingly pointed to the role of electoral factors in the dynamics of social policy cutbacks, there are few studies that actually measure the magnitude of electoral pressure and its consequent impact on the politics of reform. To this end, the authors have developed a qu…
Institutional Constraints on Policy
This article discusses the institutional constraints on policy. It shows that there is a historical and theoretical affinity between institutional theory and policy theory: institutions have affected policies, and policies have changed people's understandings of institutions. The article looks at the impact of research on public policies on the development of institutional theory. It also examines the implications of institutional theory for the …
Historical Institutionalism and West European Politics
n Contains fulltext :\n 68713.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Historical-Institutionalism in Political Science and the Problem of Change
For nearly a century ‘change’ per se was not regarded as a pressing problem in political science. Scholars studying politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were mainly concerned with the normative and procedural bases of politics, and tended to focus on constitutions — and, especially, the juridical principles embodied therein. Neither the politics of making constitutions nor the impact of these constitutions on everyday pol…
The Political Frame for Negotiated Capitalism: Electoral Reform and the Politics of Crisis in Japan and Sweden
This article examines the impact of political institutions on the strength of executive governments as well as the consequences of that strength for policymaking. It argues that both political changes and electoral reforms in Japan and Sweden have weakened the political frame for “negotiated” or “coordinated” decision making in these nations. In Sweden, however, the complete demolition of the old political frame has opened up opportunities and in…
Introduction: A Crisis of Governance in Japan and Europe
The Swedish Constitution and Social Democratic Power: Measuring the Mechanical Effect of a Political Institution
Recent discussions of Swedish political change have focused on the decline of Social Democratic ‘hegemony’ and on the end of the ‘Swedish model’. In contrast to preference– or interest–driven explanations for these developments, this paper investigates the impact of constitutional changes made in 1969 in Sweden, which included the elimination of the Upper House or First Chamber of the Swedish parliament and the introduction of a more directly pro…
The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism
Proclamations of a “new” institutionalism, while widespread, have met with some skepticism in the scientific community. Critics wonder what about the new institutionalism is really so new. Institutions, surely, have been a focus of political science since its inception. In Europe, the state has consistently been central to the study of politics and, hence, plans to “bring it back in” do not seem especially innovative. Further confusion has arisen…
Health Politics: Interests and Institutions in Western Europe
The rules of the game: The logic of health policy-making in France, Switzerland, and Sweden
Explaining change is a central problem for institutional analysis. If institutions are purported to have a kind of staying power, then how can the same institutions explain both stability and change? If institutions limit the scope of action that appears possible to different actors, why can they sometimes escape these constraints? This essay uses the case of national health insurance politics to show how institutions can explain both policy stab…
An Institutional Critique of Associative Democracy: Commentary on “Secondary Associations and Democratic Governance”
Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care
The medical profession is reputed to control decision-making in medical care to such an extent that one can speak of professional dominance. Yet West European health policies have radically changed the working conditions and incomes of doctors in many countries. Why have some governments been able to ‘socialize’ medicine? This article seeks to refute the view that the medical profession exercises a universal veto power. In contrast to scholars wh…
The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism
Proclamations of a “new” institutionalism, while widespread, have met with some skepticism in the scientific community. Critics wonder what about the new institutionalism is really so new. Institutions, surely, have been a focus of political science since its inception. In Europe, the state has consistently been central to the study of politics and, hence, plans to “bring it back in” do not seem especially innovative. Further confusion has arisen…
Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care
The medical profession is reputed to control decision-making in medical care to such an extent that one can speak of professional dominance. Yet West European health policies have radically changed the working conditions and incomes of doctors in many countries. Why have some governments been able to ‘socialize’ medicine? This article seeks to refute the view that the medical profession exercises a universal veto power. In contrast to scholars wh…
How electoral vulnerability affects pension politics: Introducing a concept, measure and empirical application
Are electorally vulnerable politicians really less likely to support controversial legislation, such as pension reforms? While the literature on welfare state retrenchment has increasingly pointed to the role of electoral factors in the dynamics of social policy cutbacks, there are few studies that actually measure the magnitude of electoral pressure and its consequent impact on the politics of reform. To this end, the authors have developed a qu…
Recalibrating social protection: Electoral competition and the new partisan politics of the welfare state
This article investigates the new party politics of welfare states with a particular focus on electoral competition. The argument is that welfare state politics are no longer just about more or less, but involve trade‐offs among ‘new’ versus ‘old’ social rights, and hence social investment versus social consumption. However, party priorities on these issues are highly dependent upon their electoral situation. As electoral competition becomes more…
Is it unfair for the affluent to be able to purchase "better" healthcare? Existential standards and institutional norms in healthcare attitudes across 28 countries
Historical Institutionalism and West European Politics
n Contains fulltext :\n 68713.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
The Political Frame for Negotiated Capitalism: Electoral Reform and the Politics of Crisis in Japan and Sweden
This article examines the impact of political institutions on the strength of executive governments as well as the consequences of that strength for policymaking. It argues that both political changes and electoral reforms in Japan and Sweden have weakened the political frame for “negotiated” or “coordinated” decision making in these nations. In Sweden, however, the complete demolition of the old political frame has opened up opportunities and in…
The Swedish Constitution and Social Democratic Power: Measuring the Mechanical Effect of a Political Institution
Recent discussions of Swedish political change have focused on the decline of Social Democratic ‘hegemony’ and on the end of the ‘Swedish model’. In contrast to preference– or interest–driven explanations for these developments, this paper investigates the impact of constitutional changes made in 1969 in Sweden, which included the elimination of the Upper House or First Chamber of the Swedish parliament and the introduction of a more directly pro…
The politics of credit claiming: Rights and recognition in health policy feedback
Why do governments recognize rights? In this article, we rely on natural experiments and an innovative matching technique to identify a new causal mechanism of policy feedback, which we refer to as the “recognition” effect. We rely on the “hard case” of health care to demonstrate that attitudes towards the health system change in response to government policy change and, indeed, even to rights‐based initiatives. During the time when public opinio…
An Institutional Critique of Associative Democracy: Commentary on “Secondary Associations and Democratic Governance”
Introduction: A Crisis of Governance in Japan and Europe
Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care
The medical profession is reputed to control decision-making in medical care to such an extent that one can speak of professional dominance. Yet West European health policies have radically changed the working conditions and incomes of doctors in many countries. Why have some governments been able to ‘socialize’ medicine? This article seeks to refute the view that the medical profession exercises a universal veto power. In contrast to scholars wh…
The rules of the game: The logic of health policy-making in France, Switzerland, and Sweden
Explaining change is a central problem for institutional analysis. If institutions are purported to have a kind of staying power, then how can the same institutions explain both stability and change? If institutions limit the scope of action that appears possible to different actors, why can they sometimes escape these constraints? This essay uses the case of national health insurance politics to show how institutions can explain both policy stab…
An Institutional Critique of Associative Democracy: Commentary on “Secondary Associations and Democratic Governance”
Health Politics: Interests and Institutions in Western Europe
The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism
Proclamations of a “new” institutionalism, while widespread, have met with some skepticism in the scientific community. Critics wonder what about the new institutionalism is really so new. Institutions, surely, have been a focus of political science since its inception. In Europe, the state has consistently been central to the study of politics and, hence, plans to “bring it back in” do not seem especially innovative. Further confusion has arisen…
The Swedish Constitution and Social Democratic Power: Measuring the Mechanical Effect of a Political Institution
Recent discussions of Swedish political change have focused on the decline of Social Democratic ‘hegemony’ and on the end of the ‘Swedish model’. In contrast to preference– or interest–driven explanations for these developments, this paper investigates the impact of constitutional changes made in 1969 in Sweden, which included the elimination of the Upper House or First Chamber of the Swedish parliament and the introduction of a more directly pro…
Introduction: A Crisis of Governance in Japan and Europe
Historical-Institutionalism in Political Science and the Problem of Change
For nearly a century ‘change’ per se was not regarded as a pressing problem in political science. Scholars studying politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were mainly concerned with the normative and procedural bases of politics, and tended to focus on constitutions — and, especially, the juridical principles embodied therein. Neither the politics of making constitutions nor the impact of these constitutions on everyday pol…
The Political Frame for Negotiated Capitalism: Electoral Reform and the Politics of Crisis in Japan and Sweden
This article examines the impact of political institutions on the strength of executive governments as well as the consequences of that strength for policymaking. It argues that both political changes and electoral reforms in Japan and Sweden have weakened the political frame for “negotiated” or “coordinated” decision making in these nations. In Sweden, however, the complete demolition of the old political frame has opened up opportunities and in…
Historical Institutionalism and West European Politics
n Contains fulltext :\n 68713.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Institutional Constraints on Policy
This article discusses the institutional constraints on policy. It shows that there is a historical and theoretical affinity between institutional theory and policy theory: institutions have affected policies, and policies have changed people's understandings of institutions. The article looks at the impact of research on public policies on the development of institutional theory. It also examines the implications of institutional theory for the …
How electoral vulnerability affects pension politics: Introducing a concept, measure and empirical application
Are electorally vulnerable politicians really less likely to support controversial legislation, such as pension reforms? While the literature on welfare state retrenchment has increasingly pointed to the role of electoral factors in the dynamics of social policy cutbacks, there are few studies that actually measure the magnitude of electoral pressure and its consequent impact on the politics of reform. To this end, the authors have developed a qu…
The politics of credit claiming: Rights and recognition in health policy feedback
Why do governments recognize rights? In this article, we rely on natural experiments and an innovative matching technique to identify a new causal mechanism of policy feedback, which we refer to as the “recognition” effect. We rely on the “hard case” of health care to demonstrate that attitudes towards the health system change in response to government policy change and, indeed, even to rights‐based initiatives. During the time when public opinio…
Recalibrating social protection: Electoral competition and the new partisan politics of the welfare state
This article investigates the new party politics of welfare states with a particular focus on electoral competition. The argument is that welfare state politics are no longer just about more or less, but involve trade‐offs among ‘new’ versus ‘old’ social rights, and hence social investment versus social consumption. However, party priorities on these issues are highly dependent upon their electoral situation. As electoral competition becomes more…
Is it unfair for the affluent to be able to purchase "better" healthcare? Existential standards and institutional norms in healthcare attitudes across 28 countries
Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook
From frontline coalitions to the political arena: Contextualizing mental health provision
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