Quasi‐markets in British Health Policy
A Longue Durée Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11196845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Powell (0000-0002-9148-5087, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 725-741 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Policy and Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-5596 • E-ISSN: 1467-9515 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1046/j.1467-9515.2003.00368.x |
| OpenAlex | W1993559433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 27 |
Quasi‐markets in health care are generally associated with the period 1991–7 in the later years of office of the British Conservative Party. This paper aims to place such claims in a wider framework by exploring definitions of and conditions of success for quasi‐markets over a longer timescale, beginning in the 1930s and ending with the current New Labour government. It suggests a typology of quasi‐markets based on hard versus soft, direct versus indirect and internal versus external forms. It applies these categories and the conditions for success for quasi‐markets to seven historical periods. Both the typologies and the conditions for success of quasi‐markets varied over time, defying a simple linear development, suggesting a more nuanced historical narrative than simple continuity or discontinuity accounts of recent developments provide. Covering such a large topic over a long sweep of time, with the absence of clear evidence for much of the period, necessarily means that verdicts tend to be impressionistic. However, even at this level, the tentative conclusions provide important contextual elements in the debate on quasi‐markets
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Choice and Information in the Public Sector
Regional assemblage and the spatial reorganisation of health and care
Translating Monetary Inputs into Health Care Provision
Making Markets in the E nglish N ational H ealth S ervice
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The ‘Social Investment Perspective’ in Social Policy
Seventy Years of Privatizing the British National Health Service
NHS Purchaser–Provider Relationships in England and Wales
Prices, quality and trust
Public Services and Market Mechanisms
Partnerships, quasi-networks and social policy
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The Forgotten Anniversary? An Examination of the 1944 White Paper, “A National Health Service”
Health Care
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Flexible Contracting? Economic Cultures and Implicit Contracts in Social Care
| Citations per year | 0.59 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2019 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |