Vandna Bhatia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4379121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vandna Bhatia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vandna |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhatia |
| SIGNATURE | BHATIA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Policy termination revisited: Theories, processes, and political dynamics
This article revisits the concept of policy termination, a largely overlooked yet critical phase in the policy process. While early policy cycle models included termination as a distinct stage, contemporary frameworks often omit it, reflecting its marginalization in policy scholarship. This article argues for the renewed relevance of policy termination, distinguishing it from related concepts like policy dismantling, and framing it as a specific …
How do populist discourses influence policy termination
Policy termination is an underexplored area in policy studies, gaining attention during the 1980s with the rise of new public management and austerity measures. Assumptions of rational, evidence-based evaluations quickly gave way to the conclusion that political ideology and partisanship are the central drivers of termination in policy research, but with little insight into how and why. The recent upsurge in populist discourse has renewed interes…
Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace, and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform
Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace, and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform." Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 21(4), pp. 423–424
Narrating Sustainability in C anadian Health Care Reform Discourse
In C anada, as in other industrialized welfare states, definitions of health system sustainability reflect different goals and correspondingly diverse ways of understanding exactly what is to be sustained and how. In this article, we report on results from a survey of documents and groups involved in and/or concerned about sustainability of the healthcare system. We identify four broad narratives of sustainability in C anadian healthcare reform d…
Social Rights, Civil Rights, and Health Reform in Canada
This article challenges the conventional wisdom that health programs have been largely insulated from welfare state retrenchment. Health care entitlements have in fact been transformed and diminished, albeit in more subtle ways. Employing rhetorical discursive constructions about the nature of social rights, and capitalizing on passive policy drift, reformists have succeeded in altering the right to health care away from a set of collective oblig…
Ideas and Discourse: Reform and Resistance in the Canadian and German Health Systems
This article examines the conditions under which policy discourses can serve as contributing factors to policy change, even in the absence of changes in institutions and interests. It begins with a discussion of the role of ideas in policy analysis and how they can play a "constitutive role" as frames for policy. Drawing on a distinction between "augmentative" discourses that serve to reinforce an existing policy framework and "transformative dis…
When tinkering is not enough: Provincial reform to manage health care resources
Prompted by fiscal deficits and guided by recommendations of provincial review commissions, a number of provinces are restructuring their health care systems to iniprove resource management. British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia have published comprehensive plans for health care reforms. The plans reveal a diversity of management approaches, including devolved structures in British Columbia, Saskatchewan…
Ideas and Discourse: Reform and Resistance in the Canadian and German Health Systems
This article examines the conditions under which policy discourses can serve as contributing factors to policy change, even in the absence of changes in institutions and interests. It begins with a discussion of the role of ideas in policy analysis and how they can play a "constitutive role" as frames for policy. Drawing on a distinction between "augmentative" discourses that serve to reinforce an existing policy framework and "transformative dis…
Social Rights, Civil Rights, and Health Reform in Canada
This article challenges the conventional wisdom that health programs have been largely insulated from welfare state retrenchment. Health care entitlements have in fact been transformed and diminished, albeit in more subtle ways. Employing rhetorical discursive constructions about the nature of social rights, and capitalizing on passive policy drift, reformists have succeeded in altering the right to health care away from a set of collective oblig…
When tinkering is not enough: Provincial reform to manage health care resources
Prompted by fiscal deficits and guided by recommendations of provincial review commissions, a number of provinces are restructuring their health care systems to iniprove resource management. British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia have published comprehensive plans for health care reforms. The plans reveal a diversity of management approaches, including devolved structures in British Columbia, Saskatchewan…
How do populist discourses influence policy termination
Policy termination is an underexplored area in policy studies, gaining attention during the 1980s with the rise of new public management and austerity measures. Assumptions of rational, evidence-based evaluations quickly gave way to the conclusion that political ideology and partisanship are the central drivers of termination in policy research, but with little insight into how and why. The recent upsurge in populist discourse has renewed interes…
Narrating Sustainability in C anadian Health Care Reform Discourse
In C anada, as in other industrialized welfare states, definitions of health system sustainability reflect different goals and correspondingly diverse ways of understanding exactly what is to be sustained and how. In this article, we report on results from a survey of documents and groups involved in and/or concerned about sustainability of the healthcare system. We identify four broad narratives of sustainability in C anadian healthcare reform d…
When tinkering is not enough: Provincial reform to manage health care resources
Prompted by fiscal deficits and guided by recommendations of provincial review commissions, a number of provinces are restructuring their health care systems to iniprove resource management. British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia have published comprehensive plans for health care reforms. The plans reveal a diversity of management approaches, including devolved structures in British Columbia, Saskatchewan…
Ideas and Discourse: Reform and Resistance in the Canadian and German Health Systems
This article examines the conditions under which policy discourses can serve as contributing factors to policy change, even in the absence of changes in institutions and interests. It begins with a discussion of the role of ideas in policy analysis and how they can play a "constitutive role" as frames for policy. Drawing on a distinction between "augmentative" discourses that serve to reinforce an existing policy framework and "transformative dis…
Social Rights, Civil Rights, and Health Reform in Canada
This article challenges the conventional wisdom that health programs have been largely insulated from welfare state retrenchment. Health care entitlements have in fact been transformed and diminished, albeit in more subtle ways. Employing rhetorical discursive constructions about the nature of social rights, and capitalizing on passive policy drift, reformists have succeeded in altering the right to health care away from a set of collective oblig…
Narrating Sustainability in C anadian Health Care Reform Discourse
In C anada, as in other industrialized welfare states, definitions of health system sustainability reflect different goals and correspondingly diverse ways of understanding exactly what is to be sustained and how. In this article, we report on results from a survey of documents and groups involved in and/or concerned about sustainability of the healthcare system. We identify four broad narratives of sustainability in C anadian healthcare reform d…
Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace, and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform
Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace, and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform." Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 21(4), pp. 423–424
How do populist discourses influence policy termination
Policy termination is an underexplored area in policy studies, gaining attention during the 1980s with the rise of new public management and austerity measures. Assumptions of rational, evidence-based evaluations quickly gave way to the conclusion that political ideology and partisanship are the central drivers of termination in policy research, but with little insight into how and why. The recent upsurge in populist discourse has renewed interes…
Policy termination revisited: Theories, processes, and political dynamics
This article revisits the concept of policy termination, a largely overlooked yet critical phase in the policy process. While early policy cycle models included termination as a distinct stage, contemporary frameworks often omit it, reflecting its marginalization in policy scholarship. This article argues for the renewed relevance of policy termination, distinguishing it from related concepts like policy dismantling, and framing it as a specific …
Political science (6 works) · Health care (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works)