Rudolf Klein

Biographic Data

ID3939347
NAMERudolf Klein
GIVEN NAMESRudolf
FAMILY NAMEKlein
SIGNATUREKLEIN R
AFFILIATIONSCentre for Studies in Social Policy
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS99
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX7

  • Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting It Together Again

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf Κlein et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of political…2013

    This article discusses different reflections on policy analysis. It provides a proposal that the policies advanced and implemented by governments actually reflect their larger concerns about gaining and maintaining office legitimately. It is then argued that the individual policy outputs should be interpreted using the context of the overall policy portfolio. The article also explores the importance of taking into account the historical dimension…

  • Democracy under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics – By Malcolm Dean

    Open AccessRudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2012

  • The Eternal Triangle: Sixty Years of the Centre-Periphery Relationship in the National Health Service

    Open AccessRudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2010Cited by: 5References: 7

    The history of the National Health Service in England is marked by a paradox. Even while successive governments used the rhetoric of power to the periphery, the exhort-and-hope system of 1948 was transformed into a command-and-control system over the next 60 years. The contrast between rhetorical aspirations and policy trajectory can be traced back, this article argues, to a debate in the 1945 Cabinet about the design of the NHS: a debate which s…

  • Building an Entente Cordiale On the Plains of Bácska: Szabadka/Subotica's Urban History

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinARTICLEEast Central Europe2006

    This paper analyses the urban history of Szabadka (today Subotica in Serbia), a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional royal free town, and the third most populous urban settlement in Hungary until World War I. This city evolved from a market town (mezöváros) as its ethnically and confessionally diverse enclaves physically merged in the nineteenth century to form an architecturally and socially coherent center. In addition to the town's urban histor…

  • Lessons for (and From) America

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2003Cited by: 1References: 1

    Drawing lessons from international experience for health care reform in the United States requires striking a difficult balance between historical determinism and free will, between cynical pessimism and naïve optimism. The key to this puzzle may lie in a paradox: the United States is the most successful exporter of public health policy ideas and instruments yet has failed to build an effective health care system. General ideas (like notions abou…

  • Vienna

    Herbert Seifert, Bruce Alan Brown et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Vienna

    Theophil Antonicek, Derek Beales et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Croll, Gerhard

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Vienna since 1945

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf Κlein et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Demus, Jörg

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Senn, Walter

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf Κlein et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Weinmann, Alexander

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf Κlein et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Wessely, Othmar

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Schenk, Erich

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf Κlein et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Peter Baldwin, Contagion and the State in Europe 1830–1930 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. pp. x111+581

    Open AccessRudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinARTICLEJournal of Public Policy2000

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  • Self-inventing Institutions: Institutional Design and the U.K. Welfare State

    Open AccessRudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinCHAPTERTheory of Institutional Design1996

    Introduction T he argument of this chapter is that in the 1980s Britain stumbled into a new approach to the design of the institutions of the welfare state: the creation of self-inventing institutions. This was not a deliberate strategy, born of some notion about postmodernist institutional architecture. Rather, it was the unintended result of the Thatcher administration's general stance to the delivery of public services: in particular, its intr…

  • Book notes

    Carolyn Rhodes, Shirin Rai et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Public Policy1995

    Neill Nugent (1994) The Government and Politics of the European Union (3rd edn) (London: Macmillan), i‐xxi, 1–473 pp.; ISBN 0 333 61445 3 (pbk) £12.99 B.J. Nelson and N. Chowdhury (eds) (1994) Women and Politics Worldwide (London: Yale University Press); index; ISBN 0 300 05407 6 (cloth) £35 José A. Gómez‐Ibanez and John R. Meyer (1993) Going Private. The International Experience with Transport Privatization (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institu…

  • La réforme du service national de santé britannique: Le consommateur introuvable

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinARTICLERevue française d administration…1995Cited by: 2

    The Reform of the British National Health Service : the Elusive Consumer The reform of the NHS in 1991 was supposed to represent a balance between public expectations and financial constraints. While continuing to be a universal System financed through taxation, the reformed NHS was designed to encourage competition in order to offer a better standard of care. It is evident that administrative costs are high, that even if the role of those genera…

  • Do‐It‐Yourself Social Policy: Searching for a New Paradigm

    Open AccessRudolf Klein, Rudolf Κlein et al.ARTICLESocial Policy and Administration1995Cited by: 14References: 9

    One of the most significant trends of recent decades has been the growing importance of do‐it‐yourself social policy: i.e. individuals constructing their own welfare mix both within the public sector and in private markets. This paper argues that this challenges the traditional top‐down bias of social policy studies and requires a shift of focus within the discipline. The implications for normative theory, research strategy and policy analysis ar…

  • Constitutional and Distributional Conflict in British Medical Politics: The Case of General Practice, 1911–1991

    Open AccessPatricia Day, Rudolf Klein et al.ARTICLEPolitical Studies1992Cited by: 7References: 4

    This paper explores the theoretical confusion in explanations of health policies. It does so by distinguishing between the politics of constitutional conflict and the politics of distributional conflict, and analysing their development over time. The first type is epitomized by the collisions between the state and the medical profession in 1911, 1945 and 1989 on the issue of general practice. The second is characterized by a corporatist-style, in…

  • From Global Rationing to Target Setting in the U.K

    Rudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1989

    A British professor of social policy discusses the implications for\nBritish medicine of the Thatcher government's increasing involvement in the\nactivities of the National Health Service. In response to economic and\nconsumer pressures, the government has changed its policy emphasis from the\ncontrol of health care spending in total to control over the use of resources\nby service providers. Klein notes some of the milestones in the process of\n…

  • A reply

    Open AccessRudolf Klein, Rudolf ΚleinARTICLEPublic Administration1989

  • Interpreting the unexpected: The case of Aids policy making in Britain

    Open AccessPatricia Day, Rudolf Klein et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Policy1989Cited by: 9References: 5

    This paper analyses the reactions of a government faced with an unpredictable and unexpected crisis with possible catastrophic long-term effects: the AIDS epidemic in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. First, the AIDS epidemic is defined as a case study of government forced to cope with uncertainty, moral ambiguity and the knowledge that there are no solutions, only ways of limiting the damage. Second, it examines the evolution of policy of British…

  • Joint Approaches to Social Policy: Rationality and Practice

    Open AccessLinda Challis, Susan Fuller et al.BOOKJoint Approaches to Social Policy1988

    This book is in essence concerned with the quest for rationality in decision-making, and is founded on the premise that improvements in the machinery of decision-making can actually lead to better decisions. The numerous initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s established specifically to foster greater policy coordination (notably the Central Policy Review Staff or 'Think Tank') had, by the beginning of the 1980s, fallen foul of an altogether changed …

  • Welfare

    Open AccessMichael Wiseman, Philip Bean et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1986