Katherine Fierlbeck
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 545588 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Katherine Fierlbeck |
| PRENOMES | Katherine |
| SOBRENOME | Fierlbeck |
| ASSINATURA | FIERLBECK K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5558-4344 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
"Testing "the science
Health Care in Federal Systems
How do multilevel health care systems evolve? Do they develop in a similar manner, or are their respective paths of evolution more sui generis? The aim of this article is to compare the way in which Canada and the European Union have attempted to coordinate health policy between their component multilevel jurisdictions over time. This article argues that the EU—despite its limited authority over health care—has been better able than Canada to dev…
Fare well to Nova Scotia? Public health investments remain chronically underfunded
Inspired by Fiset-Laniel et al.'s (2020) article entitled "Public health investments: neglect or wilful omission? Historical trends in Quebec and implications for Canada", we assessed public health investments since the establishment of the Nova Scotia provincial health authority in 2015. We analyzed Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness budgets from 2015-2016 to 2019-2020 and observed that less than 1% of funding was budgeted for public …
An expert‐generated tool for assessing policy capacity
“Policy capacity” describes the ability of policy‐making systems to do quality work. Better‐quality policy work leads to more successful policies. There have been limited attempts to operationalize theoretical understanding of policy capacity, resulting in a lack of shared understanding and assessment metrics. In this Delphi study, health policy experts validated an existing multidimensional conceptual framework for policy capacity. Factors that …
Nova Scotia
Turning a critical eye to the health care system in Nova Scotia, Katherine Fierlbeck outlines the frameworks structuring provincial health care, while providing a detailed assessment of Nova Scotia’s health financing, physical infrastructure, and service provision.
New Public Governance in health care
The New Public Governance (NPG) paradigm addresses problems of complex and fragmented policy‐making. Health care is an increasingly complex policy area, and Canada has one of the most fragmented health care systems in the world. The theoretical articulation of NPG is compelling, and seems well suited to Canadian health care. However, it is not clear how these concepts could be applied to health care. We use the case of Health Technology Assessmen…
The changing contours of experimental governance in European health care
For over a decade, beginning in the late 1990s, discussion over softer modes of governance animated academic scholarship in the fields of law, politics, and public policy. This debate was especially pronounced in Europe. Since the late 2000s, however, discussion of this approach has declined precipitously. Is the "soft governance" model dead? Or, more precisely, has the economic crisis killed it? This article argues that, to the contrary, the EU'…
Public health and collaborative governance
The nature of governance in Canada, both horizontally (between federal departments) and vertically (between federal and provincial governments) is changing. Or is it? Two distinct trends seem to have emerged over the past decade: one towards horizontal coordination and one towards vertical collaboration. These trends are perhaps best exemplified by the Public Health Agency of Canada, which depends very emphatically on integrated relationships bot…
Exploring Social Insurance
Montreal and Kingston: School of Policy Studies at Queen's University and McGill-Queen's University Press , 2008 . Pp. xii, 290 , index . Why do many European states achieve universal health coverage without suffering long wait times? The answer is not private health insurance. Britain has a parallel private system but experiences the same issues on queuing that Canada does. States with social insurance systems, however, generally do not. Could i…
Globalizing Democracy
"Globalizing Democracy" published on by Manchester University Press.
Whatever happened to regionalization? The curious case of Nova Scotia
The case of Nova Scotia well illustrates the complexities involved in implementing a strategy of regionalization in health care. In 1996, under the leadership of Liberal Premier John Savage, thirty‐six local hospital boards were amalgamated into four regional health boards. By 2001, however, Conservative Premier John Hamm had expanded the four regions into nine district health authorities. Both measures were justified by explicit references to co…
Just Work
Just Work. By Russell Muirhead. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 224p. $24.95. “Once at the center of political and social theory,” writes Russell Muirhead, “work now stands at the margins” (p. 13). A simple observation, but an astute one. While the constitution of “identity” has become a focal point for contemporary political theorists, few go beyond discussions of cultural affiliation. Yet most of us spend the majority of our waki…
Representation and Democratic Theory
Representation and Democratic Theory, David Laycock, ed., Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, pp. 224Debates over minority rights and identity theory are irreducibly connected to issues of representation and citizenship. But while discussions in the past decade have focused on the philosophical justifications for a discrete set of rights for cultural minorities, there have been fewer efforts made to understand the impact of this demand upon conceptions o…
Political Imperatives and Normative Justifications
Globalizing Democracy
List of acronyms Preface Introduction 1. Contextualizing the debate over democracy Section I - Interpreting democracy: philosophical debates 2. The ambiguity of democracy 3. Expanding democracy 4. Non-liberal democracy? Section II - Explaining democracy: causal debates 5. The market 6. Civil society Section III - Pursuing democracy: political debates 7. The politics of definition 8. Deromanticizing democracy Bibliography Index
Katherine Fierlbeck - Response to Comments by Edward Bell
Macpherson Prize
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Prix Macpherson
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Book notes
Governing the UK in the 1990s edited by J. Robert Pyper and Lynton Robins. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995. Pp.293; index; bibliography. £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 3584 325 Multicultural Citizenship by Will Kymlicka. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp.vii+280; index, bibliography. £19.95. ISBN 0 19 827949 3 Greece and Europe in the Modern Period: Aspects of a Troubled Relationship edited by Philip Carabott. London: Centre for Hellenic Studies, Ki…
The Ambivalent Potential of Cultural Identity
Despite the overwhelming prevalence of democratic ideals in contemporary political relations throughout the world, a potent ideological challenge to liberal democratic norms is the recent claim that “differential” rights are essential to foster and protect the identity of individual rights within culturally distinct groups. This article examines the claim that cultural identity confers sufficient normative force upon which to base distinct politi…
The Nation-State and Violence
Getting Representation Right for Women in Development
To what extent does the recent emphasis upon accountability by development institutions augur well for women? This article firstly describes how accountability is grounded upon the concept of consent as the principal prerequisite of legitimate authority; secondly notes how consent has historically played an ambivalent role for women; and finally argues that placing consent within a ‘context of choice’ which recognizes cultural identity threatens …
Rethinking Rights and Responsibilities
Marketing Care
Whether viewed from the Left as a source of consternation, or from the Right as a sign of progress, the political assault upon the welfare state has been a notable characteristic of most western industrialized nations throughout the 1980s. Paradoxically, the welfare states which have targeted programs directly at the poor have also been those most vulnerable to cutbacks, while states with universal programs have been more resilient
Economic Liberalization as a Prologue to Democracy
This paper examines the relationship between the recent trend towards the “globalization” of democratic norms and the increasing integration of developing countries into the international capitalist economy. Notwithstanding the claim that the decentralization of economic centres of wealth is linked to the dispersion of political power throughout a society, this paper analyses the political context of Indonesia's current economic reforms to show t…
Representation and Democratic Theory
Representation and Democratic Theory, David Laycock, ed., Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, pp. 224Debates over minority rights and identity theory are irreducibly connected to issues of representation and citizenship. But while discussions in the past decade have focused on the philosophical justifications for a discrete set of rights for cultural minorities, there have been fewer efforts made to understand the impact of this demand upon conceptions o…
The Ambivalent Potential of Cultural Identity
Despite the overwhelming prevalence of democratic ideals in contemporary political relations throughout the world, a potent ideological challenge to liberal democratic norms is the recent claim that “differential” rights are essential to foster and protect the identity of individual rights within culturally distinct groups. This article examines the claim that cultural identity confers sufficient normative force upon which to base distinct politi…
The Rise and Fall of Elites
Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph Generalizations, originally published in 1920, this work illustrates how and why democratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually reinvigorated. More than any other social scientist of his generation, Pareto offers a well-developed, arti…
The changing contours of experimental governance in European health care
For over a decade, beginning in the late 1990s, discussion over softer modes of governance animated academic scholarship in the fields of law, politics, and public policy. This debate was especially pronounced in Europe. Since the late 2000s, however, discussion of this approach has declined precipitously. Is the "soft governance" model dead? Or, more precisely, has the economic crisis killed it? This article argues that, to the contrary, the EU'…
Public health and collaborative governance
The nature of governance in Canada, both horizontally (between federal departments) and vertically (between federal and provincial governments) is changing. Or is it? Two distinct trends seem to have emerged over the past decade: one towards horizontal coordination and one towards vertical collaboration. These trends are perhaps best exemplified by the Public Health Agency of Canada, which depends very emphatically on integrated relationships bot…
The Nation-State and Violence
An expert‐generated tool for assessing policy capacity
“Policy capacity” describes the ability of policy‐making systems to do quality work. Better‐quality policy work leads to more successful policies. There have been limited attempts to operationalize theoretical understanding of policy capacity, resulting in a lack of shared understanding and assessment metrics. In this Delphi study, health policy experts validated an existing multidimensional conceptual framework for policy capacity. Factors that …
Getting Representation Right for Women in Development
To what extent does the recent emphasis upon accountability by development institutions augur well for women? This article firstly describes how accountability is grounded upon the concept of consent as the principal prerequisite of legitimate authority; secondly notes how consent has historically played an ambivalent role for women; and finally argues that placing consent within a ‘context of choice’ which recognizes cultural identity threatens …
New Public Governance in health care
The New Public Governance (NPG) paradigm addresses problems of complex and fragmented policy‐making. Health care is an increasingly complex policy area, and Canada has one of the most fragmented health care systems in the world. The theoretical articulation of NPG is compelling, and seems well suited to Canadian health care. However, it is not clear how these concepts could be applied to health care. We use the case of Health Technology Assessmen…
Whatever happened to regionalization? The curious case of Nova Scotia
The case of Nova Scotia well illustrates the complexities involved in implementing a strategy of regionalization in health care. In 1996, under the leadership of Liberal Premier John Savage, thirty‐six local hospital boards were amalgamated into four regional health boards. By 2001, however, Conservative Premier John Hamm had expanded the four regions into nine district health authorities. Both measures were justified by explicit references to co…
Fare well to Nova Scotia? Public health investments remain chronically underfunded
Inspired by Fiset-Laniel et al.'s (2020) article entitled "Public health investments: neglect or wilful omission? Historical trends in Quebec and implications for Canada", we assessed public health investments since the establishment of the Nova Scotia provincial health authority in 2015. We analyzed Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness budgets from 2015-2016 to 2019-2020 and observed that less than 1% of funding was budgeted for public …
Economic Liberalization as a Prologue to Democracy
This paper examines the relationship between the recent trend towards the “globalization” of democratic norms and the increasing integration of developing countries into the international capitalist economy. Notwithstanding the claim that the decentralization of economic centres of wealth is linked to the dispersion of political power throughout a society, this paper analyses the political context of Indonesia's current economic reforms to show t…
Redefining Responsibility
The growing economic liberalization within, and interdependence between, modern states have limited the ability of state administrations effectively to pursue public policies without the “co-operation and self-restraint” of their citizens. The concept of citizenship will thus increasingly be a battlefield in the struggle for ideological hegemony between major political interests who attempt to define citizenship to enhance their respective politi…
Redefining Responsibility
The growing economic liberalization within, and interdependence between, modern states have limited the ability of state administrations effectively to pursue public policies without the “co-operation and self-restraint” of their citizens. The concept of citizenship will thus increasingly be a battlefield in the struggle for ideological hegemony between major political interests who attempt to define citizenship to enhance their respective politi…
The Rise and Fall of Elites
Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph Generalizations, originally published in 1920, this work illustrates how and why democratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually reinvigorated. More than any other social scientist of his generation, Pareto offers a well-developed, arti…
Marketing Care
Whether viewed from the Left as a source of consternation, or from the Right as a sign of progress, the political assault upon the welfare state has been a notable characteristic of most western industrialized nations throughout the 1980s. Paradoxically, the welfare states which have targeted programs directly at the poor have also been those most vulnerable to cutbacks, while states with universal programs have been more resilient
Economic Liberalization as a Prologue to Democracy
This paper examines the relationship between the recent trend towards the “globalization” of democratic norms and the increasing integration of developing countries into the international capitalist economy. Notwithstanding the claim that the decentralization of economic centres of wealth is linked to the dispersion of political power throughout a society, this paper analyses the political context of Indonesia's current economic reforms to show t…
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
The Nation-State and Violence
Getting Representation Right for Women in Development
To what extent does the recent emphasis upon accountability by development institutions augur well for women? This article firstly describes how accountability is grounded upon the concept of consent as the principal prerequisite of legitimate authority; secondly notes how consent has historically played an ambivalent role for women; and finally argues that placing consent within a ‘context of choice’ which recognizes cultural identity threatens …
Rethinking Rights and Responsibilities
Book notes
Governing the UK in the 1990s edited by J. Robert Pyper and Lynton Robins. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995. Pp.293; index; bibliography. £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 3584 325 Multicultural Citizenship by Will Kymlicka. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp.vii+280; index, bibliography. £19.95. ISBN 0 19 827949 3 Greece and Europe in the Modern Period: Aspects of a Troubled Relationship edited by Philip Carabott. London: Centre for Hellenic Studies, Ki…
The Ambivalent Potential of Cultural Identity
Despite the overwhelming prevalence of democratic ideals in contemporary political relations throughout the world, a potent ideological challenge to liberal democratic norms is the recent claim that “differential” rights are essential to foster and protect the identity of individual rights within culturally distinct groups. This article examines the claim that cultural identity confers sufficient normative force upon which to base distinct politi…
Katherine Fierlbeck - Response to Comments by Edward Bell
Macpherson Prize
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Prix Macpherson
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Globalizing Democracy
List of acronyms Preface Introduction 1. Contextualizing the debate over democracy Section I - Interpreting democracy: philosophical debates 2. The ambiguity of democracy 3. Expanding democracy 4. Non-liberal democracy? Section II - Explaining democracy: causal debates 5. The market 6. Civil society Section III - Pursuing democracy: political debates 7. The politics of definition 8. Deromanticizing democracy Bibliography Index
Political Imperatives and Normative Justifications
Just Work
Just Work. By Russell Muirhead. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 224p. $24.95. “Once at the center of political and social theory,” writes Russell Muirhead, “work now stands at the margins” (p. 13). A simple observation, but an astute one. While the constitution of “identity” has become a focal point for contemporary political theorists, few go beyond discussions of cultural affiliation. Yet most of us spend the majority of our waki…
Representation and Democratic Theory
Representation and Democratic Theory, David Laycock, ed., Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, pp. 224Debates over minority rights and identity theory are irreducibly connected to issues of representation and citizenship. But while discussions in the past decade have focused on the philosophical justifications for a discrete set of rights for cultural minorities, there have been fewer efforts made to understand the impact of this demand upon conceptions o…
Whatever happened to regionalization? The curious case of Nova Scotia
The case of Nova Scotia well illustrates the complexities involved in implementing a strategy of regionalization in health care. In 1996, under the leadership of Liberal Premier John Savage, thirty‐six local hospital boards were amalgamated into four regional health boards. By 2001, however, Conservative Premier John Hamm had expanded the four regions into nine district health authorities. Both measures were justified by explicit references to co…
Globalizing Democracy
"Globalizing Democracy" published on by Manchester University Press.
Exploring Social Insurance
Montreal and Kingston: School of Policy Studies at Queen's University and McGill-Queen's University Press , 2008 . Pp. xii, 290 , index . Why do many European states achieve universal health coverage without suffering long wait times? The answer is not private health insurance. Britain has a parallel private system but experiences the same issues on queuing that Canada does. States with social insurance systems, however, generally do not. Could i…
Public health and collaborative governance
The nature of governance in Canada, both horizontally (between federal departments) and vertically (between federal and provincial governments) is changing. Or is it? Two distinct trends seem to have emerged over the past decade: one towards horizontal coordination and one towards vertical collaboration. These trends are perhaps best exemplified by the Public Health Agency of Canada, which depends very emphatically on integrated relationships bot…
The changing contours of experimental governance in European health care
For over a decade, beginning in the late 1990s, discussion over softer modes of governance animated academic scholarship in the fields of law, politics, and public policy. This debate was especially pronounced in Europe. Since the late 2000s, however, discussion of this approach has declined precipitously. Is the "soft governance" model dead? Or, more precisely, has the economic crisis killed it? This article argues that, to the contrary, the EU'…
Nova Scotia
Turning a critical eye to the health care system in Nova Scotia, Katherine Fierlbeck outlines the frameworks structuring provincial health care, while providing a detailed assessment of Nova Scotia’s health financing, physical infrastructure, and service provision.
New Public Governance in health care
The New Public Governance (NPG) paradigm addresses problems of complex and fragmented policy‐making. Health care is an increasingly complex policy area, and Canada has one of the most fragmented health care systems in the world. The theoretical articulation of NPG is compelling, and seems well suited to Canadian health care. However, it is not clear how these concepts could be applied to health care. We use the case of Health Technology Assessmen…
An expert‐generated tool for assessing policy capacity
“Policy capacity” describes the ability of policy‐making systems to do quality work. Better‐quality policy work leads to more successful policies. There have been limited attempts to operationalize theoretical understanding of policy capacity, resulting in a lack of shared understanding and assessment metrics. In this Delphi study, health policy experts validated an existing multidimensional conceptual framework for policy capacity. Factors that …
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